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Jerry Friedman

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Aug 18, 2011, 6:44:25 PM8/18/11
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What word links these three things?

German law
1984
Mesomesozoic

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Jerry Friedman, T. O. Panelist

Vinny Burgoo

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Aug 20, 2011, 2:34:07 PM8/20/11
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In alt.usage.english, Jerry Friedman wrote:
>What word links these three things?
>
>German law
>1984
>Mesomesozoic

The answer has only four letters.

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musika

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Aug 20, 2011, 2:47:18 PM8/20/11
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Vinny Burgoo wrote:
> In alt.usage.english, Jerry Friedman wrote:
>> What word links these three things?
>>
>> German law
>> 1984
>> Mesomesozoic
>
> The answer has only four letters.

Park
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franzi

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Aug 20, 2011, 3:48:42 PM8/20/11
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musika <mUs...@SPAMNOTexcite.com> wrote

Rats!

A German deliberative chamber is a Rat.

Winston Smith didn't like rats.

Small rat-like mammals first flourished on Earth in the mid-Mesozoic.
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franzi

John Holmes

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Aug 21, 2011, 4:57:59 AM8/21/11
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Jura.


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John Holmes

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Aug 21, 2011, 5:01:47 AM8/21/11
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John Holmes wrote:
> franzi wrote:
>> musika <mUs...@SPAMNOTexcite.com> wrote
>>> Vinny Burgoo wrote:
>>>> In alt.usage.english, Jerry Friedman wrote:
>>>>> What word links these three things?
>>>>> German law
>>>>> 1984
>>>>> Mesomesozoic
>>>> The answer has only four letters.
>>>
>>> Park
>>
>> Rats!
>>
>> A German deliberative chamber is a Rat.
>>
>> Winston Smith didn't like rats.
>>
>> Small rat-like mammals first flourished on Earth in the mid-Mesozoic.
>
> Jura.

explanation:
= German for jurisprudence
Scottish island where Orwell wrote the book
Jura(ssic) = mid Mesozoic

Vinny Burgoo

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Aug 21, 2011, 6:14:42 AM8/21/11
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In alt.usage.english, John Holmes wrote:
>John Holmes wrote:
>> franzi wrote:
>>> musika <mUs...@SPAMNOTexcite.com> wrote
>>>> Vinny Burgoo wrote:
>>>>> In alt.usage.english, Jerry Friedman wrote:
>>>>>> What word links these three things?
>>>>>> German law
>>>>>> 1984
>>>>>> Mesomesozoic
>>>>> The answer has only four letters.
>>>> Park
>>> Rats!
>>> A German deliberative chamber is a Rat.
>>> Winston Smith didn't like rats.
>>> Small rat-like mammals first flourished on Earth in the
>>>mid-Mesozoic.
>> Jura.
>
>explanation:
>= German for jurisprudence
>Scottish island where Orwell wrote the book
>Jura(ssic) = mid Mesozoic

Thank you!

Jerry Friedman

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Aug 21, 2011, 10:19:11 AM8/21/11
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I swear your Cormo won't take geological ages to arrive--or if it
does, we'll change the story later.

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Jerry Friedman, Total Official of Minisheep

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