infamous = 'talked-about; popular'

[Jonathan Lighter]

You guys are just in denial about

On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> On Feb 20, 2013, at 1:13 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
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> > At 2/20/2013 09:19 AM, Laurence Horn wrote:
> >> *who hasn't won another major* after his episode with the golf club
> >> and windshield."
> >
> > If I'd remembered that (the second part above), I would have added
> > it.  More real, not bleached, infamy (Tiger tar that sticks to Obama).
> --who, as his friends at Fox would no doubt remind us, himself hasn't won
> any elections since November.
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> LH
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