"prick" goes standard

[Laurence Horn]

On Mar 6, 2013, at 10:06 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

> Or at least quotable in a news headline in a "family" news source:
>
> http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/fox-news-ailes-newt-prick-biden-rubio-obama-130038762--election.html
>
> And note "dumb as an ashtray."
>
> JL
>
Maybe Ailes wanted to consign Biden to the ash-tray of history (now that good ash-heaps are hard to find).

LH

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