Hockey-mommin' like Tutankhamun

[Laurence Horn]

At 9:00 AM -0700 9/5/08, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>Cindy McCain sez:
>
>"John has picked a reform-minded ... hockey-mommin' ... basketball
>shootin' ... moose huntin' ... fly-fishin' ... pistol-packing ...
>mother of five for vice president."
>
>What she meant was "pistol-packin' *mama*" of five. Also, I would
>have added a few more that come to mind.
>
>Still the most remarkable string of modifiers in pulicdiscourse
>since "one-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people-eater."
>
>JL
>
And from what I've seen, it could be an even more elegant and more
symmetrical string if the first modifier were adapted to yield
"reform-mindin'".

LH

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