"... heat-sinking missile."

[Wilson Gray]

It's "heat-_sinking_ missile," y'all. It ain't nothing interesting
about a heat-_seeking_ missile.

-Wilson

On 9/22/06, Bill Le May <blemay0 at mchsi.com> wrote:
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> > I heard the "heat-seeking moisture missile" idiom in 1986.
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> >   JL
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> About the same time my friend said it.
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