[Ads-l] QOTY? multiple positions

[Jonathan Lighter]

Well, since she's no longer Veep and no longer President and her
entire staff has broken up and gone their separate ways, it whole
shebang looks pretty defunct to me.

JL

On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 5:14 PM, Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 4:52 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> > On Jun 28, 2016, at 4:35 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > I heard this once before, most likely on _Veep_, as "has got more
>> > positions than the Kama Sutra."
>> >
>> > Now apparently defunct,
>>
>> On hiatus, I believe.  Not at all defunct.  (Those with premium cable are
>> in a better position to weigh in on this.)
>>
>
> Last Sunday was the finale of Season 5 -- we'll have to wait until next
> year for Season 6. Plenty of time to catch up and log all the colorful
> vulgarities.
>
> I don't recall the Kama Sutra line getting used on "Veep," but Mike
> Huckabee reportedly said it about Mitt Romney in 2008, according to the
> pundit Mark Shields a few years later:
>
> https://archive.org/details/KQED_20110904_220000_Inside_Washington#start/1020/end/1080
> http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/noel-sheppard/2011/09/03/mark-shields-romney-has-more-positions-kama-sutra
>
>  --bgz
>
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