[Ads-l] Heard: "Do you know...

Neal Whitman nwhitman at AMERITECH.NET
Sun Nov 15 00:09:37 UTC 2015


Are you sure it wasn't "how sinking OF a feeling"?

Neal

On 11/14/2015 6:33 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
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> how sinking a feeling that is?"
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> Football-game color-man's rhetorical question WRT to a QB's visceral
> response to seeing his pass batted up into the air.
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