Je recuse.

[Wilson Gray]

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 9:41 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yeah, but it's got to be like the same thing as "excused himself," right? I
> mean it's obvious. Judges excuse themselves but we call it recuse
> themselves. Because it's court. Â It's like more official.
>

Nobody never explained it to me that way, before! ;-)

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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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