Nadders wore naprons while eating ewts. See http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:English_nouns_which_have_interacted_w... On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 8:51 PM, meekerdb <meekerdb@verizon.net> wrote:
I heard it from Ed Clark in 1959.
Brent Meeker
On 1/1/2014 2:53 PM, Hans Havermann wrote:
Dan Asimov wondered how old the basic pun is. A quick search in Google Books found a 1963 reference: "Here is a log table. Now you adders can multiply." [Margaret D. Blickle, Martha E. Passe: Readings for Technical Writers] _______________________________________________ math-fun mailing list math-fun@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/math-fun
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