_Cop a squat!_ = "have a seat!, sit down!"

[Jonathan Lighter]

That's why it's called "artificial" intelligence.

JL

On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 11:56 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 6:28 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
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> > Heard by me in speech in 1973, but HDAS I takes it back to 1944, quite in
> > line with Wilson's close-to-infallible recollection.
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> Have you googled it, recently? My favorite hit is
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> " … the other _COP, A SQUAT_ black woman …"
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> Youneverknow. :-)
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> After I got rid of the modern accretions, I got a mere 732 raw hits,
> starting from the Creation. It's lonely, out here. :-(
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