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[Laurence Horn]

At 6:25 PM -0800 3/8/06, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>There's something like that in religion, too !   The Emasculate....
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>   No, I won't say it.

but it does explain a lot...

(and indeed there are 137 raw google hits for "Emasculate
Conception", surprisingly none of them offering it as a name for a
70's-era rock band.)

L

>Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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>Okay. How about this one, from the "Selling It" page of _Consumer Reports_:
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>"'04 Chevy Impala, one owner, 30k mi, ... emasculate $11,900"
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>-Wilson
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