Veep and

[Eric Nielsen]

Brings to mind this sentiment from a time when the ink flowed:

"Some will rob you with a six-gun,
And some with a fountain pen."

"Pretty Boy Floyd" by Woody Guthrie

http://woodyguthrie.org/Lyrics/Pretty_Boy_Floyd.htm

Eric

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> ....BTW, GB turns up a _pencil-fuck_ from 1997, where it appears to mean
> "to victimize through the use of writing" :
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> "I want to ask him to break the current standing record for ways a lawyer
> can pencil-fuck a tiny little schmoe."
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> The only ex. I find on the Net. New to me, too.
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> JL
>  "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the
> truth."
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