[Ads-l] Eggcorn, kind of: _mother load_ "heavy burden"

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sat Jul 16 05:02:54 UTC 2016


Callahan Leatherpress
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Looking back, it's been a _mother load_ of sweat, tears, dollar signs, and
more fails than you can shake a monkey wrench at...
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-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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