Negative Nancies and other related musings

[Mark Mandel]

Unless you mean the dolls, how are the GI J's significantly less generic
than John Law? -- and why not John Q. Public?

m a m

On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Also GI Joe and GI Jane.
>
> I assume we're ignoring more abstract personifications like "John Q.
> Public"
> and "John Law."
>
> JL
>

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