Testing the (presidential) waters

[sagehen]

>>  > -----Original Message-----
>>>  From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU]On Behalf
>>>  Of Bapopik at AOL.COM
>>>  Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 11:47 AM
>>>  To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>>>  Subject: Testing the (presidential) waters
>>
>>>  A headline in AM NEW YORK, May 2, 2006, pg. 3, is: "Giuliani tests '08 =20
>>>  waters." In Iowa? Isn't that a land-locked state?
>>
>>What's the Mississippi, chopped river?
>>
>>Bill Le May
>>Dubuque, Iowa
>
>I feel obliged, since no one else has stepped in this particular
>river even once, to offer my huzzahs for the above mot.
>
>LH
>
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Oh, yes! I was laughing out loud at this beaut & immediately passed it on
to Martin, but was too sleepy to send applause to Bill or the list.
AM

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