[Ads-l] syntactical "curiosity"

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Mon Apr 24 22:46:54 UTC 2017


Quotation marks because the words seem novel but the form does not.

Ad (not cartoon) in the _New Yorker_ a few weeks back:

"I'm Hepatitis Cured!"

JL

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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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