The rebirth and use of the _merkin_

[Wilson Gray]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
> "a public wig". Â Obviously, she takes it off in
> private.

That's actually food for thought. Did the writer go to write "pubic"
and inadvertently misspell it? Or was it the intention to sneak in a
little pun? As when the female protagonist of a TV show casually
mentioned that her male friend, an underwater welder, could hold his
breath for three minutes, when he went down.

I'm surprised that the censors let that one go. After all, an
underwater welder doesn't work holding his breath.

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-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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