Heard on Springer

[Laurence Horn]

On Aug 2, 2012, at 2:40 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

> Seriously, I found myself thinking the other day, "If you don't like gay
> marriage, don't get gay-married!"
>
> Am I an innovator here?
>
> JL

You and 75,200 others, including Julian Bond (according to his wiki).

LH
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> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:
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>> On Aug 2, 2012, at 12:57 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
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>>> "She was _door-going_, selling vacuum cleaners."
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>>> -Wilson
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>> Short for "door-to-door-going"
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>> LH
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