Most Notable Quotations of 2009
Wilson Gray
hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sat Nov 7 01:41:52 UTC 2009
"Wee-weed" or "wee-wee'd," perhaps?
-Wilson
On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> At 11/4/2009 08:51 AM, Seán Fitzpatrick wrote:
>>"There is something about August going into September where everybody in
>>Washington gets all wee weed up!" B. H. Obama, 19 Aug 2009
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> Should this be "wee wee'd"?
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> Joel
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>>"'We're going to go bankrupt as a nation.' People, when I say that, look at
>>me and say, 'What are you talking about, Joe? You're telling me we have to
>>go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?' The answer is yes."--Joseph
>>Biden, July 16 2009
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>>Seán Fitzpatrick
>>If it's not the Crusades it's the Cartoons.
>>http://www.logomachon.blogspot.com/
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