for fans of reversed "substitute"

[Jonathan Lighter]

You won't get off that easy !   MMWAAAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA !

J " 'Tis the Season" L

Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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Subject: Re: for fans of reversed "substitute"
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On 10/27/05, Arnold M. Zwicky wrote:
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> Sender: American Dialect Society
> Poster: "Arnold M. Zwicky"
> Subject: for fans of reversed "substitute"
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> the 10/27/05 "Bizarro" cartoon (by Don Piraro) has a waiter taking an
> order from a pig. the pigs says: "The special sounds good, but can I
> substitute the pork chop for a fried chunk of your left buttock?"
>
> this is reversed "substitute", which we've mentioned here before:
> "substitute OLD for NEW" instead of the older version "substitute NEW
> for OLD" ("substitute OLD by/with NEW" is the intermediate stage, in
> case you've forgotten the details).
>
> arnold
>

Take me now, Lord!
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-Wilson


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