Heard on The Judges: "exuded" = "told"

[Wilson Gray]

I think that he thought something like, "What can I pull out of my
passive lexicon of little- or never-used words in order to Amos-&-Andy
my way into giving the impression that I'm a gentleman of learning,
rather than the common street thug that I am?"

(Yes, I'm sure that you understood that and I do get the joke in your
comment. :-))

-Wilson

On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 7:43 AM, LanDi Liu <strangeguitars at gmail.com> wrote:
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> So he really meant "She exuded to me (out of her ass) that she was a
> ex-stripper."
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> Now that's what I call evocative language.
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> Randy
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> 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
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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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