the butt patrol

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Thu Jun 23 03:53:54 UTC 2011


On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 8:09 AM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> So that makes me kind of a language pioneer, right? Right?

So, the maintenance of the historic purity and integrity of God's own
tongue you choose to leave to us - or should that be "we"? -
less-advantaged?! Shame! Why, just a moment ago, I heard,

"Give him a _hobo's pack on the end of a stick_"!

Is the word, _bindle_, become unknown, even among the alumni of the
Harvard Lampoon who write today's TV shows?

"O tempora! O mores!"

to coin a phrase.

--
-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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