Ben on the Radio (UNCLASSIFIED)

Mullins, Bill AMRDEC Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL
Fri Jul 6 16:04:27 UTC 2012


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I was expecting to hear "dark horse candidate" in there somewhere -- did
I miss that?

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> On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
> <Bill.Mullins at us.army.mil> wrote:
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> > Anyone else hear Ben Zimmer on NPR yesterday, talking about gambling
> > metaphors in the run up to the election?
>
> It was on Marketplace:
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http://www.marketplace.org/topics/elections/campaign-trail/president-bet
ting-
> man
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> They cut out the part where I talked about the current prevalence of
> the "doubling down" metaphor from blackjack.
>
> --bgz
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> Ben Zimmer
> http://benzimmer.com/
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