[Ads-l] idiom backfire

[Mark Mandel]

Well, well! We may have the beginning of an archive, or at least a
collection.

Mark Mandel


On Sun, Jun 2, 2019, 7:04 PM James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
wrote:

> For what it's worth, a fried of mine wrote me sometime between 1970 and
> 1975 about her husband's extensive dental work: "I was going to say that he
> would have been better had he been born without any teeth, and then I
> realized that he had."
>
> - Jim Landau
>
>

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