sammie

[Laurence Horn]

I guess, but for me, as someone who spent 11 years as a companion person to my late, lamented Samoyed, a "killer sammie" is an oxymoronic descriptor of a dog that looks like this

https://www.facebook.com/SamoyedRescueofTexas

and is nevertheless a killer.  Technically I suppose that would count as a killer Sammie, though, not a killer sammie.

LH 



On Aug 16, 2014, at 5:36 PM, Yagoda, Ben wrote:

> Favored, and possibly popularized, by Rachael Ray.
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> On Aug 16, 2014, at 5:17 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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>> "Mayo, mustard, and pesto are all great building blocks for a killer
>> sammie."
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