The kids will find lube holes

[Laurence Horn]

At 9:06 AM -0700 10/20/06, Mark Peters wrote:
>In a student paper on curfew laws, I spied this remarkable sentence,
>"The cons on the issue at hand are that if the laws are too strict
>the kids will find lube holes."
>
Priceless.  I wonder if the student was distracting by the lexical
value of "cons" in French...

LH

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