[Ads-l] stern sheets, cat shit

Mark Mandel thnidu at GMAIL.COM
Mon Dec 19 21:03:57 UTC 2016


How about "more ambiguous than 'catch it'"?


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On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 11:01 AM, Joan Hall <jdhall at wisc.edu> wrote:

> DARE takes stern sheets back to 1855.
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> Though we don't have "cat shit crazy," we do have a great map showing that
> "meaner than cat shit" is strangely concentrated in Pennsylvania, New
> Jersey, and New York. And don't forget that the holiday special offer for
> digital DARE is in place till January 3:
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> http://www.hup.harvard.edu/about/dare-digital-special-offer
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