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Lars Marius Garshol scripsit: > That could be, but since the original joke seemed to imply that the > word "lox" was only known in the mid-West, and since that area > (Minnesota especially) is known to have disproportionately many > Scandiavian immigrants, and the terms were near-identical in > pronunciation and meaning, it seemed sort of logical. On the contrary, I think the joke clearly implies that the subject knows neither "bagels" nor "lox", since he does not know which term applies to which referent. (He needs a topic map!) So he must come from the non-lox-eating part of the Midwest. -- John Cowan jcowan@r... At times of peril or dubitation, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Perform swift circular ambulation, http://www.reutershealth.com With loud and high-pitched ululation.
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