Heard: "I finished cleaning the _restroom_ and …"

Neal Whitman nwhitman at AMERITECH.NET
Sat Feb 9 16:59:37 UTC 2013


Vermin can have epicenters? I guess if their nest was under the floor...

Neal

On Feb 8, 2013, at 9:34 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:

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> On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 9:11 PM, Spanbock/Svoboda-Spanbock
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>> Not sure to which reality show you are referring to,
>
> "Infested," on Animal Planet. Sheila was a woman in her 30's, with a
> surname of the type usually considered to be Jewish. She and her
> husband had just moved into a residence, only to discover that it was
> infested with vermin whose epicenter was the "restroom."
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