[Ads-l] "Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades."

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Tue Apr 26 12:10:29 UTC 2016


But close!

JL

On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 6:37 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 7:58 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > It wasn't slangy enough for HDAS II.
> >
>
> Still isn't, IMO.
> --
> -Wilson
> -----
> 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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