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Old Dec 4, 1998 | 2:26 am
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WAAAYYY off topic:

"antepenultimate", or 'just before next to last' wasn't invented by arturo or roberto (or PF or MF, whom I believe to be their alter egos). I first ran into it in a beautifully written (by Noel Coward?) ditty entitled, "Madeira, M'dear", a wonderful Edwardian ballad about an elderly gent's attempt to seduce a "young, pure, new, nice" girl of 17 by plying her with red wine. One line:

"And then she remembered
what her mother had said,
with her antepenultimate breath:
'My child, should you gaze
on the wine when tis red,
Be prepared for a fate
worse than death!'"

They just don't write 'em like that anymore!
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