[Ads-l] WOTY? The p-word

[Joel Berson]

My error -- the P-word is considered 1/2 of the C-word.  Still, it was the P-word Brian Stelter was withheld from.

Joel

      From: Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
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So I guess the female C-word was OK.

JL

On Sun, Oct 9, 2016 at 3:38 PM, Joel Berson <berson at att.net> wrote:

> Isn't that the *one word* (of the seven or more) that is most seductive
> to, and therefore most to be hidden from, an adolescent boy?  After all,
> for Pubescentes and for a few Years after Puberty,their Juices are in a
> Juvenile Fret, as Dr. William Douglass observed.
>
>
> Joel
>
>
>      From: Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
>  To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>  Sent: Sunday, October 9, 2016 11:30 AM
>  Subject: Re: [ADS-L] WOTY? The p-word
>
> > The *one* word.
>
> Of course, that may be "truthful hyperbole."
>
> JL
>
> On Sun, Oct 9, 2016 at 11:22 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Brian Stelter (b. 1985), CNN senior media correspondent:
> >
> > "I remember the *one word* my parents tried to shield me from was the
> > P-word."
> >
> > The *one* word.
> >
> > JL


   

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