"But people sticking with Obama is my _pet pea_." [NP]

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Wed Nov 21 02:30:31 UTC 2012


On Nov 20, 2012, at 8:55 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

> It's like a pet rock but it's a pea.

Better than pet pee.

LH
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> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 8:30 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Ditto
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