Engineering amazing

Ben Zimmer bgzimmer at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU
Mon Apr 1 21:28:33 UTC 2013


On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>
> CNN said yesterday that you might want to "get your sexy back" by losing
> ten pounds "in time for summer."
>
> Then some tanned, young, trim guy with surfer hair appeared to tell you in
> detail how to "get your sexy back."

Perhaps you missed the memo, Jon. Justin Timberlake was "bringing sexy back" in
2006.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexyback

--bgz

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