Is this a good sentence?

[Jonathan Lighter]

I will continue to hate myself that kind of stuff.

JL

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 8:21 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Ben Zimmer
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> > We do love _ourselves_ a bit of Ruth Jones.
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> That's it, then. The tribe has spoken. Well, I'm not going to "let the
> door hit me in the back," given that that misconstruction now has the
> imprimatur of The Man.
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