mistress-minds

[Joel S. Berson]

Good lord!  I read the original message as referring to Osama!

I won't even sign my name ...

At 5/6/2012 06:09 PM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
>She was salutatorian in HS, so there must have at least one other student.
>
>Sent from my iPhone
>
>On May 6, 2012, at 5:59 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> > Poster:       Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> > Subject:      Re: mistress-minds
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> > 1. Seen her long-form birth certificate?
> >
> > 2. Quick! *Where* was she born?  You don't know, do you?
> >
> > 3. Citizenship papers? Never heard of any.
> >
> > 4. And have you ever, ever, seen anyone step forward to swear they knew her
> > in college? Or even grade-school?
> >
> > JL
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >> Poster:       Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
> >> Subject:      Re: mistress-minds
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> >> On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
> >>>> Mr. Obama. Mrs. Obama.
> >>>>
> >>>> Who is she really?
> >>>
> >>> Surely it's "who are they really"? =C2 (And I'm brought to contrasting
> >>> "Two heads are ..." vs. "Too many cooks".)
> >>
> >> FWIW, I see it Jon's way.
> >>
> >> --
> >> -Wilson

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