> > > (My sister insists that this should be "Like Columbus", but she is WRONG WRONG WRONG. . . .)
> >
> > She's RIGHT RIGHT RIGHT.
> >
> > Is your sister older than you, by any chance? I wonder if it was Columbus at first (it scans better, after all) and then was switched to George Washington once Columbus fell out of favor.
>
> Ah, see, that's the entire point of the study. To see if anything like that tracks true.
>
> >
> > (Riftie: I'm 34, white, and grew up all over the world.)
>
> Also, Sam, what do you sing for the other two echoes? And where were you living when you first learned the song?
>
> >
> > S "called it pepperoni" am
>
> -Rifty

Now I'm wondering, because now that I think about it, "like George Washington" and "like Monopoly" have the same number of syllables. Maybe Sam's reindeer played Connect Four or Parcheesi.

Nyper"You shanked my Jengaship!"old