[Ads-l] gird, n. (UNCLASSIFIED)

[MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY CCDC AVMC (USA)]

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What's the word?
Johannesberg
Gil Scott-Heron, 1975


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> More precisely, gird gird gird gird is the word.
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> JL
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> On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 7:07 PM Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > gird is the word.
> >
> > Two thumbs up!
> >
> > On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 10:09 AM Jonathan Lighter
> > <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Duluth Trading Co. is urging guys to "lull their loins" with a pair
> > > of
> > its
> > > "Dang Soft Underwear."  ("Like a pillow for your package.")
> > >
> > > Caution-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xQ-pzcYBlU
> > >
> > > But the issue here is that Dang Soft is also "like a cuddly panda
> > > hugged your gird."
> > >
> > > Maybe they mean "girth," but idiomatically even that's a (wait for
> > > it) stretch.
> > >
> > > But gird is the word.  Maybe because "loins" are involved.
> > >
> > > JL
> > >
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> > truth."
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> > to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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