The rebirth and use of the _merkin_

[Dan Goncharoff]

My guess is a spellchecker is the culprit...
DanG

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:42 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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