Comments on: Disambiguation time: Lizzie Borden http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/5043 Feel Smart Again Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:37:07 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: scriveyn http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/5043/comment-page-1#comment-10108 scriveyn Thu, 05 Apr 2007 09:20:46 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/5043#comment-10108 Reminds me of the ditty (found in Ambrose Bierce's "The Devil's Dictionary"): Lizzie Borden with an axe Gave her father forty whacks. When she saw what she had done She gave her mother forty-one. Reminds me of the ditty (found in Ambrose Bierce’s “The Devil’s Dictionary”):

Lizzie Borden with an axe
Gave her father forty whacks.
When she saw what she had done
She gave her mother forty-one.

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