Heard on "Law & Order: CI"

[Jonathan Lighter]

"The whole kit" must be the latest.  I heard it the other day on a different show.

  I guess there ain't no time to say "caboodle."

  JL

Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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"He liked to dress in women's clothes - panties, bra - the whole _kit_."

The whole _kit_?!

Perhaps the speaker was a Brit doing a dashed good job of faking an
Amurk'n accent. But don't actors have to follow a script?

-Wilson
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a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our
race. He brought death into the world.

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