[Ads-l] Really?
    Wilson Gray 
    hwgray at GMAIL.COM
       
    Wed Jun 24 23:51:03 UTC 2015
    
    
  
"A Brooklyn-based artist posted a rare 17th-century English word on a
previously
empty billboard in Forest Hills but she wants to be the only one using it."
Well, for her sake, I certainly hope that Obama never users this word! His
saying it will mean that "we" can use it, too!
-- 
-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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