[Ads-l] "bonds out of jail"

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Fri Sep 2 02:12:19 UTC 2016


On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 10:47 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> I wonder how long it would take me to stop reading it as "bounds out of
> jail"...
>

Perhaps as long as it's going to take me to stop hearing Hot Pockets as
"High Pockets," in the TV commercial.


-- 
-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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