chuckie

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Sat Dec 4 19:20:49 UTC 2010


At 12:38 PM -0500 12/4/10, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>At 12/4/2010 10:40 AM, Ronald Butters wrote:
>>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
>>
>>Beautiful? Are "Jackie" and "Jerkie" also beautiful? What are the
>>aesthetic criteria?
>
>And I keep seeing the malevolent doll of the "Child's Play" movies
>(although his name is spelled with a y).
>
Not to mention Jon Gruden, former NFL coach and now commentator,
widely known as "Chucky" because of his striking resemblance to the
above.

LH

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