IVIV (1) Aunt Reet

Dave Monroe against.the.dave at gmail.com
Tue Aug 25 11:09:15 CDT 2009


On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 7:16 AM, Ian Livingston<igrlivingston at gmail.com> wrote:

> Anagrammatic, too, Reet and tree.

As in "tree section"?  Me, I can't help but think, Reet Poteet, but I
also haven't quite found any justification for assuming that's the
case beyond, well, the fact that (a) it's the first thing that comes
to mind when I see Reet (again, Jackie Wilson, "Reet Petite"), and (2)
there IS a character by the name of Poteet, so ...



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