[WikiEN-l] Arlo Guthrie's wife, on "cleanup"

Sun Sep 18 01:07:22 UTC 2005

Arlo Guthrie tells a story about needing to find some old magazines  
that he was sure were in his basement. After all, they'd been there  
for years. He couldn't find them, so he asked his wife about them.

"Oh," she said, "I cleaned those up last spring."

"They're not 'cleaned'", objected Arlo, "they're _gone!_"

"Well," said his wife, "I don't think you can get much cleaner than  
'gone.'"

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