[Ads-l] QOTW

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Sun Jul 30 00:40:34 UTC 2017


> On Jul 29, 2017, at 6:03 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> "The fish stinks from the head down. I can tell you two fish that don't
> stink, and that's me and the president."
> 
> JL
> 
…but as The Mooch should have realized, his first sentence has been getting a lot of play in the absence of the sentence, for example by continuing with the observation that he himself is just the fish’s mouth…

LH

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