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From: rte@elmo.lz.att.com (Ralph T. Edwards)
Subject: Re: Argh! (Was Wit, Wisdom...)
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Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 15:18:31 GMT
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In article <ptc-1208950950260001@hep24.rockefeller.edu>,
ptc@physics.rockefeller.edu (Tim Cox) wrote:

> In article <rte-1008951038290001@mac-118.lz.att.com>, rte@elmo.lz.att.com
> (Ralph T. Edwards) wrote:
> 
> (clip)
> > 
> > I can think of one sung instance of British origin.
> > 
> > Hey, you, get off of my cloud.  (JJF circa late sixties)
> > 
> > -- 
> > R.T.Edwards rte@elmo.att.com 908 576-3031
> 
> I think this is a little unfair. The title of the song was, I think, 'Get
> off my cloud', and as I remember it whether they were singing 'get off a
> my cloud' or 'get off of my cloud' is a little unclear (I no longer have a
> recording available!). In any case, there is the question of artistic
> (poetic?) licence involved with metrical and rhythmic constructions like
> this...
> 

Well, I hear offa to mean off of, as in get outa here!
-   /@/, the all purpose syllable  -

-- 
R.T.Edwards rte@elmo.att.com 908 576-3031
