Not Quite Bushonics

Doug Harris cats22 at FRONTIERNET.NET
Sun Dec 16 04:03:49 UTC 2007


. . . but the object-verb agreement problem here makes one
wonder what the frog is going _on_ at that nursing job:

from an eBay seller's profile:
"i am the mother of 4 who became disabled at my nursing job. so i now try to
support my family and farm by selling on ebay."
(the other) doug

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> It's not every day that 'linguistics professor' is a major role in a
> satire.  Enjoy...  Lynne
>
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> Bushonics speakers strike back
> By Tom McNichol
>
> http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2001/03/19/bushonics/index.html
>
> We're mad as hell and we won't be misunderestimated anymore!
>

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