[Ads-l] yeah, no

[Jonathan Lighter]

If anyone is still interested:

Quora.com today:

"[H]ere’s a post of hers from 2018 blaming the CA wildfires on a secret
Jewish space laser.

"Yeah, no, that’s what I meant to type.

"This person has no business being in Congress."

= 'Yes, truly.'

JL


On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 2:19 AM Ann Burlingham <ann at burlinghambooks.com>
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> On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 10:41 PM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com>
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> > One more "Yeah, no", but this one seems different.
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> > http://goo.gl/ALskj
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> > It's a pic, so you'll have to click through...
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> that's not a "yeah no", it's a "yeah no duh". "no duh" is common
> enough to have a band named "no duh".
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> http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/no_duh
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