Heard on Springer

[Jonathan Lighter]

Seriously, I found myself thinking the other day, "If you don't like gay
marriage, don't get gay-married!"

Am I an innovator here?

JL

On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> On Aug 2, 2012, at 12:57 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
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> > "She was _door-going_, selling vacuum cleaners."
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> Short for "door-to-door-going"
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> LH
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