"train" = 'handcar'

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Mon Jul 25 02:09:01 UTC 2011


Tonight's Simpson's episode featured a toy handcar that escaped from the
house and went rolling through Springfield. As Marge tried to follow and
retrieve it, she and others kept calling it a "train."

They never called it a "handcar."

JL

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