[Ads-l] brew ha ha
Ben Zimmer
bgzimmer at GMAIL.COM
Thu Apr 21 16:37:39 UTC 2016
Coincidentally enough, the New York Times noted Curt Schilling's use of
"brew ha ha" and slyly corrected it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/21/sports/baseball/curt-schilling-espn-transgender.html
“This latest brew ha ha is beyond hilarious,” he wrote of the brouhaha.
On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 9:54 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> The CNN crawl quotes one of the indicted Michigan officials as describing
> the criminal charges against him as one more of "those brew ha has" that
> develop now and then.
>
> Obviously something that seems funny after a few beers.
>
> BTW, there is a chain of coffee houses in Delaware and environs called
> "Brew Haha!" but so what?
>
>
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