"The horror is that there is no horror."

[Jonathan Lighter]

All or none of the above....

It's the old haste makes for distaste thing.

JL

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Jonathan Lighter
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> > It may have been appeared
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> A lapsus for
>
> "It may have been _done_ appeared …"
>
> ?
>
> I.e.
>
> "It may have BIN done appeared …"
>
> :-)
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> to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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