guy = 'thing'

[Jonathan Lighter]

Common for a log time in ref. to material objects.

But today a sixtyish woman was telling me of her experience in a t'ai chi
class. She mentioned a move or two as being easy to remember,

"but then there's *this* guy!"



JL

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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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