"congressional meat-puppet"..........!

[Scot LaFaive]

I never heard the word "Zurinskas" until he came on this list. "Smith"
works fine as a last name. Perhaps we need to get rid of that word. :P

Scot

On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Mark Mandel <Mark.A.Mandel at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Tom has a long and... colorful... history on this list. He has an obsession
> with "correct" spelling and pronunciation, defined as what his ear hears.
> He has never studied linguistics and is proud of it. I do not consider him
> a
> troll, because although he has created a great deal of heat and aroused
> much
> rancor among members (including myself, alas), I don't think his *intent*
> is
> to cause trouble. At the same time, I cannot consider him a serious amateur
> listmember, because he ignores almost all attempts to educate him in the
> sciences of language.
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> Mark Mandel
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> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 4:22 PM, kimberly armradit <karmradit07 at yahoo.com>
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> > Please tell me you're trolling.=20
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> > --- On Fri, 7/31/09, Tom Zurinskas <truespel at HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> > From: Tom Zurinskas <truespel at HOTMAIL.COM>
> > Subject: Re: "congressional meat-puppet"..........!
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> > I've never seen the term "meat puppet".=C2=A0 How useful can it be if
> folks=
> >  don't know what it means.=C2=A0 There is no such thing as a "meat
> puppet".=
> > =C2=A0 I think from the word puppet alone we get the jist.
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> > Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+
> > see truespel.com
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