[Ads-l] QOTY? multiple positions

[Ben Zimmer]

Jeez, Jon, spoiler alert!


On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 5:41 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
> >
>

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