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☛ ML, 6/22/06: Beetle Bailey goes positively meta:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003278.html

☛ ML, 2/3/11: Miss not:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2941

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