infamous = 'talked-about; popular'

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Wed Feb 20 20:02:19 UTC 2013


I was about to discard that, but my subconscious mind, moved by billions of
years of cause-and-effect since the Big Bang, made me hit "send" instead.

Now you'll never know what you're in denial about.

JL

On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

> You guys are just in denial about
>
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> On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:
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>> Subject:      Re: infamous = 'talked-about; popular'
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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.
>>
>> LH
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