"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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