[Ads-l] "defecto"

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Mon Nov 1 21:46:26 UTC 2021


"Electo" too.

JL

On Mon, Nov 1, 2021 at 5:39 PM Tom Zurinskas <truespel at hotmail.com> wrote:

> "Defecto" not "electo"
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> Tom Zurinskas,  Originally from SW Conn 20 yrs,  college NE Tenn 3,  work
> SE NJ  33,  resides SE Florida 18...  truespel.com
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> Subject: Re: "defecto"
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> Yeah, I can hear the "Let's go, Brandon!" crowd claiming that Trump is
> still our "President defecto."
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> JL
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> On Mon, Nov 1, 2021 at 10:09 AM George Thompson <george.thompson at nyu.edu>
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> > From a message to SABR-L, which circulates among baseball enthusiasts:
> > "there was chatter in the St. Louis papers as the season started that
> Edman
> > was the defecto backup to DeJong at shortstop"
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> > The message as a whole was marked by the absence of frivolity, so I think
> > this was not a joke.
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> > GAT
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> > George A. Thompson
> > Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
> > Univ. Pr., 1998.
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> > But when aroused at the Trump of Doom / Ye shall start, bold kings, from
> > your lowly tomb. . .
> > L. H. Sigourney, "Burial of Mazeen", Poems.  Boston, 1827, p. 112
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> > The Trump of Doom -- also known as The Dunghill Toadstool.  (Here's a
> > picture of his great-grandfather.)
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> http://www.parliament.uk/worksofart/artwork/james-gillray/an-excrescence---a-fungus-alias-a-toadstool-upon-a-dunghill/3851
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