[Ads-l] call out sick

[Wilson Gray]

On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 12:20 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> In the days of Sue, the T. Rex, we used to say, "call in sick."


Exactly. Though we may have called out, "Stop the spinning! I'm sick!,"
under the relevant circumstances.


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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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