just "going through the emotions"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Not for me, of course.

JL

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

> And why doubt that for many people "the emotions" sounds just fine?
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> JL
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> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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>> At 5/14/2012 08:14 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>> >…is what, according to Charles Barkley, the
>> >Celtics have been doing in their playoff game
>> >tonight against the 76ers, who they obviously
>> >don't respect (again, according to Barkley,
>> >although I tend to agree).  I assume it's a
>> >blend of "going through the motions" + "playing without emotion".
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>> Or the five stages of playing B-ball?
>>
>> Joel
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