cold hot coffee [was: missing the concept]

[Wilson Gray]

On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
> protect one's tots from burns

Oh. You intend for _tots_ to be taken lierally. It's the same _tot_ as
in "tot mom." My initial reading was that _tots_ was meant as a
straightforward variation on _boys_, in the relevant sense.

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