[Ads-l] Good news for ammunition sales, and for back-formations

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sun Jan 3 04:54:26 UTC 2016


On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 7:28 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> A composer friend of mine advises me that he's about to "music-direct" the
> forthcoming Broadway singin' and dancin' version of "American Psycho."
>

Heard.

A father, telling tales about his now-adult child, says that he told the
boy, then a pre-adolescent, a frightening story about the death of his
mother when a drunk driver drove his car into her car. The son comments,

So, I've *never* _drunk-drived_!"
-- 
-Wilson
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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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