_wonky_ = "shady"?

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Fri Apr 20 02:23:03 UTC 2012


On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 8:01 AM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:
> As for "wonky", I take it as a word being used by a person who is
> dissatisfied by something they don't understand well enough to explain to
> someone else.

As a matter of fact.

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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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