"uterus" an indecorous word? ("slut" in the news)

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Fri Jul 8 16:15:06 UTC 2011


On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 7:26 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Mason's public behavior as a member of the bar, in front of cameras, under
> those circumstances, strikes me as a wee bit remarkable and (nowadays)
> yawningly abhorrent.
>

I don't know Jon. Isn't it the case that one has to be in an endzone
before mere "irrational," as it were, "exuberance," so to speak,
devolves into a perpetration?

(Hmm. My spellchecker has a problem with _endzone_, but none with
_perpetration_. I thought that the latter was a mere nonce-word that
I'd invented on the spot.)

(Youneverknow.)

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-Wilson
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