Heard on The Judges: "exuded" = "told"
LanDi Liu
strangeguitars at GMAIL.COM
Thu Jul 3 11:43:08 UTC 2008
So he really meant "She exuded to me (out of her ass) that she was a
ex-stripper."
Now that's what I call evocative language.
Randy
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 10:03 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> "She _exuded_ to me that she was a ex-stripper."
>
> I'm fairly certain that this is another nonce use pulled out of the
> speaker's ass,
> -Wilson
> --
> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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> -Sam'l Clemens
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