Unusual application of "kike" (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Jonathan Lighter]

But that don't make no sense!!

Oh. Right.

JL

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC <
Bill.Mullins at us.army.mil> wrote:

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> > As a name for a young woman's sailboat, I suggest that "Kite" was
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> If "kike" was a typo for "kite", it was used more than once in the
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