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[Wilson Gray]

> skin-clad

Remember when those participating in track and field were called
"thin-clads"?

On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 5:30 PM, Barretts Mail <mail.barretts at gmail.com>
wrote:

> What does skin-clad mean, other than having skin? BB
>
> > On 16 Feb 2018, at 14:25, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
> >
> > When I was in high-school, one of my brow-ridged, skin-clad classmates
> knew
> > a jolly witticism. He'd ask, "What's 3q + 1q?"
> >
> > Get ready to laugh. When you'd say, "Four q," he'd say, "You cussin' me
> > out?!" Then he'd feign a punch to your mouth.
> >
> > Humor's golden age.
> >
> > JL
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 2:37 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Then there’s “fork”, popularized in (and possibly limited to) the world
> of
> >> “The Good Place” (NBC-TV), as in “what the fork(?)"
> >>
> >> LH
> >>
> >>> On Feb 16, 2018, at 10:11 AM, W Brewer <brewerwa at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> << Frak or frack is a fictional version of "fuck" first used in the
> >>> 1978-Battlestar Galactica television series. It continues to be used
> >>> throughout different versions of the Battlestar Galactica franchise as
> a
> >>> profanity in science fiction. >>  -----Wikip
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-Wilson
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