[Ads-l] In a Lending Tree ad

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sat Oct 6 02:58:08 UTC 2018


> Yep.

Youneverknow.
On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 9:22 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Yep. We lived in a "Town Home" for a number of years. There were six of
> them, in two cheek-by-jowl units each. They went up in (get ready!) 1983 or
> '84.
>
> I didn't realize "townhomes" were a thing, however, till just now.
>
> JL
>
> On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 5:24 PM Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Townhomes
> >
> > WTF?!! Are you saying that the word, "townhome," exists *historically*
> > and is *independent* of a single, on-line money-lenders' ad?! Cut my
> > legs and call me "shorty"! It still amazes me how well Jim Crow
> > worked. It's a good thing that _townhome_ wasn't on the SAT's!
> > On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 4:35 PM Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Is it that simple? Townhouses, historically, were distinct but adjacent
> > > buildings. Townhomes are NOT distinct buildings.
> > >
> > > On Thu, Oct 4, 2018, 3:49 PM Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > _Townhouse_ replaced by "townhome."
> > > >
> > > > What's next? The "White Home"?
> > > > --
> > > > -Wilson
> > > > -----
> > > > All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
> > > > to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> > > > -Mark Twain
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-Wilson
-----
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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