bogus = "illegal' (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Alison Murie]

On Sep 3, 2009, at 10:06 AM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:

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> They say that every cigarette you smoke takes ten minutes off your
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> But if you take 12 minutes to smoke it, don't you come out ahead?
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>> From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On
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>> FWIW, WRT gerontology, my PC physician told me that, after fifty
>> years
>> of smoking, I have the lung-capacity of a 93-year-old. (It's amazing
>> the way those actuarial charts can pin things down!) OTOH, people
>> tell
>> me that I look ten years younger than my actual age. They mean well,
>> but, given that that still leaves me in my early sixties, I'm not
>> swept off my feet. What acn you do?
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>> -Wilson
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Many years ago, when I was still a pack-a-day smoker, I dreamed that
my mother, who also smoked, though not as much, when told that she
could lengthen her life by fifteen years if she would quit, said,
"What would I want with fifteen more years of not smoking?" ( That
this was a dream probably says more about me than my mother, but I did
eventually succeed in quitting,  back in 1969.)
AM

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