[Ads-l] healthier, n.

[Jonathan Lighter]

Memorable moments stick in the memory.

JL

On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 11:41 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 9:24 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
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> > Another ex. of a trend in usage that begins imperceptibly, then suddenly
> > seems brand-new  a century later.
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> It's a saying that I'e known since childhood. I was lucky to be able to
> back it up with more than, "I saw it as a graffito scribbled onto the wall
> of a mess hall at Fort Devens, Massachusetts, in November of 1959," a claim
> that was ridiculed by someone here at ADS-L in a discussion of, "There is
> no gravity, the earth sucks."
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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.
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