'Texes' as plural of 'text (message)'

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Fri Feb 3 02:08:17 UTC 2012


Equally satisfactory for the meter, equally silly for the semantics, implying as it does that the rest of us (guys) have two big balls.  In which case they're not really big(ger than average) anyway, modulo the Lake Wobegon effect.

LH

On Feb 2, 2012, at 8:45 PM, Dan Nussbaum wrote:

> Hitler had only one left ball.
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> The version I heard said "Hitler had only one BIG ball."
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> Dan Nussbaum
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