No Spin zone

[Jonathan Lighter]

Maybe it's like "custom pantsings."

JL

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 6:22 AM, Bill Palmer <w_a_palmer at bellsouth.net>wrote:

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> I'm not a regular O'Reilly watcher, so maybe this has been going on a =
> long time...among the closing credits of this morning's broadcast =
> (re-broadcast, maybe) was "Custom Shirtings by....")  Apparently "To =
> shirt" is a transitive verb. Who knew? =20
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