What? N-Z?  Or did they just ignore N?

Kevin "smart a** mode on" Newman

Ted Ashton wrote:

> Thus it was written in the epistle of Gavin Scott,
> > Stan after Wirt:
> > > > Yesterday as you may have heard was the 100th anniversary of
> > > > the publication of the "Wizard of Oz" by Frank L. Baum. In
> > > > case it escaped you, the book is widely regarded as a parable
> > > > about the populism that spread through the
> > >
> > > For years, people specializing in Oz research (including Martin
> > > Gardner and relatives of L. Frank Baum) have dismissed that
> > > interpretation.
> >
> > Sometimes a flying monkey is just a flying monkey.
> >
> <g>
>
> In in the For What It's Worth Department, Paul Harvey, in one of his "rest of
> the story" books tells about the original telling of the story during which
> Baum suddenly had a need for a name for the country and, looking quickly
> around happened upon the label on the file drawer below the one labelled A-M.
>
> Ted
> --
> Ted Ashton ([log in to unmask]), Info Sys, Southern Adventist University
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> ... There can be no doubt about faith and not reason being the ultima ratio.
> Even Euclid, who has laid himself as little open to the charge of credulity
> as any writer who ever lived, cannot get beyond this. He has no demonstrable
> first premise. He requires postulates and axioms which transcend
> demonstration, and without which he can do nothing.
>                                             -- Butler, Samuel (1835 - 1902)
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>          Deep thoughts to be found at http://www.southern.edu/~ashted