Plumbing the depths of Joe the Plumber's "dictionary

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sat Mar 10 02:31:12 UTC 2012


On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
> Perhaps calling someone *a* queer rather than calling them queer could
> be described as "dropping a hard Q".

<har! har!> Indeed! Post that to the UD!

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