> At 08:35 AM 7/22/2011, Alan Rudy wrote:
>
> Here here!
>> Alan
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Facebook tells me that today is Carrol Cox's birthday. Hope it's a
>> > tolerably happy one, Carrol.
>>
>
> I'll save our English prof the trouble of pointing out that this should be
> Hear! Hear! ;-)
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Hear,_hear<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hear,_hear>
>
> Hear, hear is an expression used as a short, repeated form of hear him,
> hear him. It represents a listener's agreement with the point being made by
> a speaker. It is often incorrectly spelled "here here".[1]
Well, the spirit, hopefully, counts... I am, unfortunately, often incorrect. ;-) A