bogus = "illegal' (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Tom Zurinskas]

Hmmm.  Smoke enough and  you'll live forever.


Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL7+
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> Sender: American Dialect Society
> Poster: "Mullins, Bill AMRDEC"
> Subject: Re: bogus = "illegal' (UNCLASSIFIED)
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> They say that every cigarette you smoke takes ten minutes off your life.
> But if you take 12 minutes to smoke it, don't you come out ahead?
>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On
>> Behalf Of Wilson Gray
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 8:29 PM
>> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>> Subject: Re: bogus = "illegal'
>>
>>>
>> 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?
>>
>> -Wilson
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Jonathan
>> Lighter wrote:
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>>> Not long ago, Wilson, I discovered Jack Benny's secret for remaining
>> 39.
>>> Just lie and have birthday party every year.
>>>
>>> It works!
>>>
>>> (I'd prefer 19, but I can't quite figure that one out.)
>>>
>>> JL
>>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Wilson Gray
> wrote:
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>>>> Sender: American Dialect Society
>>>> Poster: Wilson Gray
>>>> Subject: Re: bogus =3D "illegal'
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>>>> Damn, mein! Dass bogus!
>>>>
>>>> Not your reaction to this reinterpretation of a fine old word, Jon,
>>>> with which I am in full agreement. That's language-change for you,
>> to
>>>> paraphrase Lewis Carroll.
>>>>
>>>> It's that, sometimes, we colored just have to clown. Like, I crack
>>>> myself up and annoy my wife. That's what makes us such great comic
>>>> relief, despite intense Jewish competition - remember the (deli
>>>> proprietor?), Mr. Kropotkin, on the Jack Benny [dS&g bInI] show:
>>>> "Hoo-hoo-hoooo! MEEstair BEHnee!" Gave Rochester a run for his
>> money!
>>>> It's probably a genetic thing. You wouldn't understand. But maybe
>> you
>>>> would. One never knows, do one? ;-)
>>>>
>>>> BTW, did you know that Rochester had a son who was baller? Played
>> pro
>>>> ball in the NFL, back in the day. Can't recall for which team.
>>>>
>>>> -Wilson
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Jonathan
>> Lighter
>>>> wrote:
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>>>>> Sender: American Dialect Society
>>>>> Poster: Jonathan Lighter
>>>>> Subject: bogus =3D "illegal'
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>>>>>
>>>>> CNN reports that to ten per cent of kidney transplants worldwide
>> are
>>>>> "bogus."
>>>>>
>>>>> Turns out that means that the recipients got real kidneys, but
> the
>>>> kidneys
>>>>> were obtained on the black market.
>>>>>
>>>>> JL
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> "There You Go Again...Using Reason on the Planet of the Duck-
>> Billed
>>>>> Platypus"
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>>>> --
>>>> -Wilson
>>>> =96=96=96
>>>> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange
> complaint
>>>> to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
>>>> -----
>>>> -Mark Twain
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>>> "There You Go Again...Using Reason on the Planet of the Duck-Billed
>>> Platypus"
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>>
>>
>> --
>> -Wilson
>> ---
>> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
>> to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
>> -----
>> -Mark Twain
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