BRITNEY PANTYGATE! PHUN! E-SENSE ! HUMEAN BEINGS!

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Or as the old professorial  gag used to go: Ladies, please cross your legs.
Now that the gates to hell are closed I will proceed with my lecture.

The only time I had any problem with this was back in the 1960s when micro
mini skirts were in fashion and I was lecturing to a class whose members
sat in tiered rows above me, and it was distracting although I never used
the gag because I enjoyed the view.

Page Stephens

> [Original Message]
> From: Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
> To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Date: 12/7/2006 5:04:20 PM
> Subject: Re: [ADS-L] BRITNEY PANTYGATE! PHUN! E-SENSE ! HUMEAN BEINGS!
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> Or, perhaps, merely as "opengate."
>
> -Wilson
>
> On 12/7/06, Charles Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
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> > Poster:       Charles Doyle <cdoyle at UGA.EDU>
> > Subject:      Re: BRITNEY PANTYGATE! PHUN! E-SENSE ! HUMEAN BEINGS!
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> > That's funny:  "pantygate" would more accurately be "NOpantygate"!
> > --Charlie
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> > >Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 09:47:53 -0800
> > >From: Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM>
> > >Subject: BRITNEY PANTYGATE! PHUN! E-SENSE ! HUMEAN BEINGS!
> > >To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> > >
> > >2006_Fox Online_ (FNC TV show) (Dec. 7): Britney Spears...in the
scandal that some are calling Pantygate.
> > >
> > >  This "-gate" is unusual for being applied to a noncriminal act by a
nonpolitical (yeah, I know: evrybody's "political") individual.
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