"Cock"

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Fri Feb 11 14:56:44 UTC 2011


At 2/11/2011 08:51 AM, Amy West wrote:
>On 2/11/11 12:04 AM, Automatic digest processor wrote:
>>Date:    Thu, 10 Feb 2011 22:33:00 -0500
>>From:    Jonathan Lighter<wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
>>Subject: Re: "Cock"
>>
>>Not to encourage you two, but CNN described self-disgraced Rep. Christopher
>>Lee (who sent a "flirty" picture of his shirtless self to some woman at
>>Craig's List), as a once "up and rising" young Republican.
>
>Just seems like a blend of "up and coming" with "rising (star?)" . . .

Or did CNN mean that he had now become impotent?  (But I'd bet with Amy.)

Joel

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