WOTY

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Tue Oct 11 23:49:15 UTC 2011


..and a reclaimed and scrubbed down ex-sexual euphemism to boot!  (Although I confess I did get a frisson when I first saw those "Occupy Wall Street" posters…)

LH

On Oct 11, 2011, at 7:35 PM, Victor Steinbok wrote:

> Really? Why not just "occupy"--we now have "Occupy Wall Street" (OWS),
> "Occupy [city]", "Occupy Capitol", and, last, but not least (obviously),
> "Occupy Everything". And it's got perfect timing for WOTY voting.
>
>    VS-)
>
> On 10/11/2011 6:39 PM, James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com> wrote:
>> No question about it:  "corporate greed"
>
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