More careless lexical baloney

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Fri May 23 17:15:20 UTC 2014


On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 9:35 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

> retired Lt. Col. Jay Kopelman


No wonder that he was "riffed" into retirement instead of being promoted to
"full bird"! He's crazy!

OTOH, you have to give props to Liz's intern for doing such a thorough job
WRT the necessary research.
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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