everyone should have a good dictionary. . . .

[Jonathan Lighter]

Besides, if he's a pediatrician, he's automatically suspect.

It's the Zeitgeist.

JL

On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> On Nov 11, 2012, at 11:16 AM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
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> > At 11/11/2012 10:49 AM, Laurence Horn wrote:
> >> On Nov 11, 2012, at 9:11 AM, George Thompson wrote:
> >>
> >> > . . . especially when rioting.  From today's NYTimes (Sunday)
> >> > In 2000, a tabloid antipedophile campaign led to vigilante attacks in
> >> > which, at one point, a crowd
> >> > confused<
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2000/aug/30/childprotection.society>
> >> > the
> >> > words pedophile and pediatrician and vandalized the home of an
> innocent
> >> > doctor.
> >> >
> >> > There is a link in the on-line Times to a story from The Guardian,
> late
> >> > August, 2000:
> >> > http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2000/aug/30/childprotection.society
> >> >
> >> > GAT
> >> At least the two are cognates, so the rioters get part credit.  How
> >> about those poor podiatrists?
> >>
> >> LH
> >
> > And an "ist" surely must be doing something unspeakable to somebody.
> >
> > Joel
>
> Plus you (almost) can't spell "podiatrist" without a "tryst".
>
> LH
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