Words beginning graduate students don't know

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Sat Oct 12 13:07:54 UTC 2013


Only if there's a paratrooper in it.

JL


On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 7:30 AM, W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:

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> <palisade > brings to mind Sgt Kimball (16 Jul 1986)  at Camp San Luis
> Obispo:  called a foxhole a <parapit>.
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