muddled referent

[Jonathan Lighter]

You're thinking of "the Obama regime."

I haven't heard that one yet, but I'm too lazy to Google the obvious.

JL.

On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 9:23 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 10:50 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> > not somewhere I would have expected the
> > Obama government to have permitted.
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> <har! har!> Nice, Joel! I especially like "the Obama government" like
> unto "the Stalin government" - irony and sarcasm gathered into a
> single phrase!
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