[Ads-l] healthier, n.

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sun Sep 6 22:28:23 UTC 2015


On Sun, Sep 6, 2015 at 4:13 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Now in my day, that would have to have been "Masters of *the* Extreme."


Quite so. The other version raises - or should that be, "begs"? - the
question,"Masters of extreme what?"
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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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