cold hot coffee [was: missing the concept]

[Joel S. Berson]

Wilson, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.  But give me credit for
choosing "tots" here.  :-)

Joel

At 6/5/2011 10:09 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

>On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
> > protect one's tots from burns
>
>Oh. You intend for _tots_ to be taken lierally. It's the same _tot_ as
>in "tot mom." My initial reading was that _tots_ was meant as a
>straightforward variation on _boys_, in the relevant sense.
>
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