[Ads-l] cis/cissy

[W Brewer]

LH (I think): << "cissy" I hadn't heard.  Or if I had, I'd misanalyzed it.
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WB:  There was a time when I queried the list about what to call members of
the Commonwealth of Independent States, suggesting CISies [sissies]. This
suggestion no doubt provoked Putin to bare his chest on horseback and
re-stake the czarist claim on Crimea. It was tantamount to calling Jim
Stark "chicken".

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