X marrying Y <> Y marrying X?

[Joel S. Berson]

At 9/13/2007 11:44 AM, RonButters at AOL.COM wrote:
>In a message dated 9/12/07 11:40:24 PM, Berson at ATT.NET writes:
>
>
> > At 9/12/2007 11:22 PM, Larry Horn wrote:
> > >>Though few guys would want redaction on their penises.
> > >
> > >Maybe not, but I get three or four spams a day offering just that...
> >
> > That's strange -- I don't get any spams for reduction.
> >
> > Joel
> >
>
>The spammers must know something about Larry that is not public knowledge. I
>did not realize that spam-audience-targetting was so specialized.

That he's a linguist, and knows what "redaction" means, and it's not
the same as "reduction"?

Joel

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