Half a pair of buttoxes

[Jonathan Lighter]

Why, yes.  Did you think my proscriptivist decrees arbitrary?

  JL



Charles Doyle <cdoyle at UGA.EDU> wrote:
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Like that character in _Candide_.

--Charlie
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---- Original message ----
>Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 06:46:15 -0800
>From: Jonathan Lighter
>Subject: Re: crunk
>
> And Grant, won't you help us protect the precision of our English language by restricting the use of "half-assed" to describe persons having but one buttox?
>
> JL

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