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A Native American went to his psychiatrist:
"Doctor, Doctor--I think I'm a wigwam! No, a teepee. No! A wigwam!"
The doctor replied:
"You don't have a real problem; you're just too tense."
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Hemiola, yes! (Hi, eta!) Where did it come from, though? Hemi means half, right? I just tried looking up -ola and found that it doesn't mean anything; then I tried iola, and it's just a name. Struck out with ola (leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper) and Ola ('nother name), too.
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