Fron a Facebook post:

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Fri Aug 31 13:02:18 UTC 2012


At 8/31/2012 12:46 AM, Wilson Gray wrote:
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 and other _assordid_ types 
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>I guess that people hear many more idiomatic collocations than they
>ever read. But, you'd think that they'd ask themselves WTF _assordid_
>means.

The various types of people one encounters passing through a back alley.

Joel


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