[Ads-l] cowardless

[Laurence Horn]

> On May 17, 2016, at 2:22 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> Correction: he called her "a sick, twisted piece of shit" and a
> "cowardless cunt."
> 
> JL

Yes, the original script for "The Wizard of Oz" called for the Bert Lahr character was the Cowardless Cunt, but what with the Hays Code and all, it had to be changed to the Cowardly Lion.

LH
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> On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 1:24 PM, Jonathan Lighter
> <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Means 'cowardly' to someone, prob. infl. by "cowardice."
>> 
>> CNN plays a death threat phoned in to a Democratic party official calling her a
>> "cowardless piece of shit."
>> 
>> The caller sounds sober, btw.
>> 
>> Seemingly many raw Google hits.
>> 
>> JL
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>> --
>> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
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> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
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