Bad Girls Ride Again (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Jonathan Lighter]

That's my guess. To the layperson (and the bad girls are proud of
being such) there must be a switch labeled "blast."

Am open to other interpretations, however.


JL

On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> At 12/11/2010 05:56 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> >"I'm gonna put you on blast like you got no idea!"  (App. = "drive you
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> >immediately and permanently.")
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>  From "blast-off", as with rockets?
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> Joel
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