[Ads-l] dirty language

[Jonathan Lighter]

Ashleigh Banfield:  "I still don't know whether [a certain candidate's
immigration policy]'s  'hardening' or 'softening.' [With hand gestures of
embarrassed disavowal:]  Pardon the dirty language!  [Tapping desk
seriously:] What does he need to do in that speech tonight?"

JL

-- 
"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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