eggcorn

[Jonathan Lighter]

D'oh !

JL

James Smith <jsmithjamessmith at YAHOO.COM> wrote:
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> At 11:16 PM -0700 5/16/05, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>
> >Rex, Pres. Eisenhower always said "nucular," and he
> was always
> >ridiculed for it. But historians think he made a
> decent Prez. God
> >knows what Lincoln and Jackson sounded like.

Lincoln sounded like just Raymond Massey, and Jackson
sounded like Charlton Heston :)

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South SLC, UT |it is that we will be sued
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|or slowly and cautiously.

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