Dork

[Jonathan Lighter]

Somebody's gonna be hurtin' for certain.

JL

Wilson Gray <wilson.gray at RCN.COM> wrote:
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>>On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 03:19:17PM -0800, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>>> Thank you, Ben. Michael and I will not have to step outside after all.
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>>Damn, just when I thought ADS-L could be getting more exciting than
>>your typical academic listserv.
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>>Jesse Sheidlower
>>OED
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>While I find it quite comforting to be relegated to irrelevancy (where I
>surely belong), I feel that I must defend my (and I believe, Jonathan's)
>good intentions to duke it out if we could only have convinced our seconds
>to do their duty. Having no second myself, I accept more than a half-share
>of responsibility for the fizzle of the fracas. Anyone who says otherwise
>is cruising for a bruising.
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>Michael McKernan

"Cruising for a bruising"? IMO, such a person is aching for a breaking. ;-)

-Wilson Gray

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