[Ads-l] beautiful, n.; re-elect, n.; airship

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Sat Oct 8 10:06:47 UTC 2016


A certain candidate said in 2005 that he's "automatically attracted to
beautiful."

An MSNBC correspondent notes that Rep. Mike Coffman of Colorado is "running
for re-elect."

Elsewhere, a CNN news personality describes USS Yorktown as "a World War II
airship."

('Aircraft carrier'.)


JL

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