Two outrageous WOTYs

Victor aardvark66 at GMAIL.COM
Sun Jan 11 04:08:28 UTC 2009


http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121089779322097255.html
http://dailycents.com/hannah-seligson/bodysnarking.html


Joel S. Berson wrote:
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> "body-snarking" -- Is this from "[hunting for a] snark"?  But the
> snark is imaginary, whereas the posted bodies, presumably, are real.
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> "fish pedicure" -- Gee, I missed an experience when I was snorkeling
> once and discovered a wrasse cleaning station; I should have stuck my
> feet down vertically.
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> Joel
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