Heard on Springer

[Jonathan Lighter]

Whoa, dude!

JL

On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> On Aug 2, 2012, at 2:40 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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> > 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
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> You and 75,200 others, including Julian Bond (according to his wiki).
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> LH
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> > On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu
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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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