bogus = "illegal' (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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They say that every cigarette you smoke takes ten minutes off your life.
But if you take 12 minutes to smoke it, don't you come out ahead?



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> From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On
> Behalf Of Wilson Gray
> Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 8:29 PM
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: Re: bogus = "illegal'
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> Poster:       Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject:      Re: bogus = "illegal'
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> FWIW, WRT gerontology, my PC physician told me that, after fifty years
> of smoking, I have the lung-capacity of a 93-year-old. (It's amazing
> the way those actuarial charts can pin things down!) OTOH, people tell
> me that I look ten years younger than my actual age. They mean well,
> but, given that that still leaves me in my early sixties, I'm not
> swept off my feet. What acn you do?
>
> -Wilson
>
> On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Jonathan
> Lighter<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Poster:       Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> > Subject:      Re: bogus = "illegal'
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> > Not long ago, Wilson, I discovered Jack Benny's secret for remaining
> 39.
> > Just lie and have birthday party every year.
> >
> > It works!
> >
> > (I'd prefer 19, but I can't quite figure that one out.)
> >
> > JL
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com>
wrote:
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> >> Poster:       Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
> >> Subject:      Re: bogus =3D "illegal'
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> >> Damn, mein! Dass bogus!
> >>
> >> Not your reaction to this reinterpretation of a fine old word, Jon,
> >> with which I am in full agreement. That's language-change for you,
> to
> >> paraphrase Lewis Carroll.
> >>
> >> It's that, sometimes, we colored just have to clown. Like, I crack
> >> myself up and annoy my wife. That's what makes us such great comic
> >> relief, despite intense Jewish competition - remember the (deli
> >> proprietor?), Mr. Kropotkin, on the Jack Benny [dS&g bInI] show:
> >> "Hoo-hoo-hoooo! MEEstair BEHnee!" Gave Rochester a run for his
> money!
> >> It's probably a genetic thing. You wouldn't understand. But maybe
> you
> >> would. One never knows, do one? ;-)
> >>
> >> BTW, did you know that Rochester had a son who was baller? Played
> pro
> >> ball in the NFL, back in the day. Can't recall for which team.
> >>
> >> -Wilson
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Jonathan
> Lighter<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
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> >> > Poster:       Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> >> > Subject:      bogus =3D "illegal'
> >> >
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> >> >
> >> > CNN reports that to ten per cent of kidney transplants worldwide
> are
> >> > "bogus."
> >> >
> >> > Turns out that means that the recipients got real kidneys, but
the
> >> kidneys
> >> > were obtained on the black market.
> >> >
> >> > JL
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > "There You Go Again...Using Reason on the Planet of the Duck-
> Billed
> >> > Platypus"
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> >> --
> >> -Wilson
> >> =96=96=96
> >> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange
complaint
> >> to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> >> -----
> >> -Mark Twain
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> > "There You Go Again...Using Reason on the Planet of the Duck-Billed
> > Platypus"
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>
> --
> -Wilson
> ---
> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
> to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> -----
> -Mark Twain
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