Fw: [ADS-L] "this sucks" (and more)

[Joel Berson]

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From: "Baker, John" <JMB at STRADLEY.COM>
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Sent: Tue, April 26, 2011 12:22:01 PM
Subject: Re: [ADS-L] "this sucks" (and more)

>There is an old proverb that states, IIRC, "Who never loved
>a woman, sucked a sow."  Misreading the long s makes the concept >even more
>striking.

Perhaps not excessively striking.  There were such cases in 17th-century
Massachusetts.  In these cases both man and animal(s) were executed.

Joel

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