[Ads-l] healthier, n.

[Jonathan Lighter]

Cintas commercial:

"Are you ready? ... Are you ready? [etc.] ... Everybody wants a piece of
the ready!

JL

On Sun, Sep 6, 2015 at 11:06 PM, Dave Hause <dwhause at cablemo.net> wrote:

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> And maybe it's gone all the way to Xtreme! (Pronounced zuhtreem by those
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> Dave Hause
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> Yo, G, it's the 21st Century!   Who cares extreme what, bro?
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> JL
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> On Sun, Sep 6, 2015 at 6:28 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Sun, Sep 6, 2015 at 4:13 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com
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> > > Now in my day, that would have to have been "Masters of *the* Extreme."
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> > Quite so. The other version raises - or should that be, "begs"? - the
> > question,"Masters of extreme what?"
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