[Ads-l] Retrofit [re-TROFF-it]
W Brewer
brewerwa at GMAIL.COM
Sun Apr 5 09:52:18 UTC 2015
CNN News reader Isa Soares reports that the Large Hadron Collider's
two-year [re-TROFF-it] is complete.
Too bad they didn't trofit it right the first time. A defective
agronosteel had a black hole in it.
(Metanalysis, re-assignment of morpheme boundary. Don't laugh, it could be
a trend.)
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