[Ads-l] Former successor

[Herb Stahlke]

And my sadly lame attempt at humor was in that context.

Herb

On Saturday, March 4, 2017, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:

> As some of us have known for many years (and have discussed here) the
> preferred term is simply "ancestor."
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> JL
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> On Sat, Mar 4, 2017 at 6:42 PM, Herb Stahlke <hfwstahlke at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
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> > This morning a host on MSNBC referred to Obama as Trump's "former
> > successor.".
> > Next we should hear "future ancestor."
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