[Ads-l] "on the regular"

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Fri Jun 17 22:26:27 UTC 2016


"On the up and up"?

"On the nose"?

"On the road to Mandalay"?

JL

On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 4:23 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
>> On Jun 17, 2016, at 2:11 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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>> Like "on the QT"?
>>
>> "On the down-low?"
>>
>> "On the cheap"?
>>
>> JL
>
> "On the hour"?
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> "On the fly"?
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> LH
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>> On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 8:51 AM, Bill Mullins <amcombill at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> "If gravitational waves don't require cataclysmic collisions between enormous black holes for us to measure them, but can be detected on the regular, we can use them to try to figure out a whole lot more than just whether or not Einstein was totally right."
>>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__kottke.org_16_06_gravity-2Dis-2Dthe-2Dnew-2Dlight&d=AwIFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=wFp3X4Mu39hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsSxPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=RC0FLcotvGv0L4Y6jjOfoVVlcKl5xGo53WezPEqz6PE&s=Kh4dM5RGymlCAT1awr8oL7AxLGUUaqtFx3QRCbSD3H8&e=
>>>
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>> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
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