ostension

[Jonathan Lighter]

Yeah. Weird. I mean, who *thinks* of these things?

JL

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 6:34 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 9:10 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
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> > aluminum pop-tops for the supposed purpose of helping to save terribly
> ill children
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> Preceded by, IME, collecting the red-cellophane tear-strips used to
> open cigarette packs, followed by collecting the foil wrappers lining
> those packs.
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> I can't say that anybody actually got around to doing either of these
> things, but they were often referred to as "a good thing to do" for
> the children of the truly poor.
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