Another one bites the dust?

[Beverly Flanigan]

Maybe they're afraid to say "vertebra."

At 11:31 PM 9/5/2007, you wrote:
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>Heard on CSI:
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>[Holding up a bone]: "Looks like a human _vertebrae_."
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>-Wilson
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>All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
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