No Spin zone (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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This one time, in gym class, I was de-shortsed.

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> Maybe it's like "custom pantsings."
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> JL
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> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 6:22 AM, Bill Palmer
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> > I'm not a regular O'Reilly watcher, so maybe this has been going on
a
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> > long time...among the closing credits of this morning's broadcast =
> > (re-broadcast, maybe) was "Custom Shirtings by....")  Apparently "To
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> > shirt" is a transitive verb. Who knew? =20
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> > Bill Palmer
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