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Subject: Re: [PD-LIFE] Groaner to end all groaners translated
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 12:47:46 -0500
"Carmen Miranda Montand" or "Comin' around the mountain."
I'm assuming a play on the Horseshoe Curve? Not that I like to direct any publicity Altoona's way!
--Debra
Come see our Inclined Plane instead--World's Slowest Rollercoaster!
In a message dated 3/9/2004 12:21:13 PM Eastern Standard Time, writes:
> Duh... I don't get it. I wouldn't make this admission
> > except that I am so confident that others don't get it
> > either. I'm going to feel soooo small if I'm the only
> > one.....
> > -Georgia
> > http://www.customxstitch.com
> >
> > On a whim and a bottle of champagne, Carman Miranda decided
> > to marry
> > Yves Montand in Chicago, long, long ago, and wired her aunt
> > that they
> > would be coming into the PRR Station in Altoona on "The
> > Pennsylvanian"
> > the next day to meet the family. Her aunt read the
> telegram
> > and said,
> > "Just think! She'll be Carman Miranda Montand when she
> > comes!"
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