To Suicide and Marriage v. CU

[Hillary Brown]

It's shorthand for "murder me and make it look like a suicide" in the
movie. (So, yes.)

hb

On 3/1/07, Charles Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
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> Wouldn't transitive "suicide" have to be either redundant or ironic?
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> --Charlie
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> >Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 11:56:08 -0500
> >From: "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET>
> >Subject: Re: To Suicide and Marriage v. CU
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> >At 3/1/2007 11:33 AM, Matthew Kohl wrote:
> >>Sean Connery's character in "The Rock" (1996) uses suicide, v.  He says, "The moment they had the microfilm, they'd suicide me."
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> >So it's trans. as well as non.  (I'm sure I've heard "suicide" (v. non-trans.), and not from Asians, but have no idea where or when.)
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> >Joel
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