"shocking"

[Jonathan Lighter]

A year later:

"Scientists in Cambridge have discovered a shocking new fatigue remedy." --
ad for Puritea at
http://www.yahoo.com/

("Shocking" as a neutral term for "surprising" or "startling"  is audible
virtually every day on CNN.)


JL











On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 9:24 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> Because great minds think alike.
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> JL
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> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 8:00 AM, Jonathan Lighter
> > <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > [T]hat=C2 kind of "bad " doesn't even mean "good" in the relevant
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>  of
> > "good."
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> > Jon, you've made me proud to know you!:-)
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> > --
> > -Wilson
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> > All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
> > to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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