[Ads-l] rye-baldly

[Laurence Horn]

Ouch.  That’s a weird one.  Rye-bald humor (= without even the fig-leaf of a caraway seed?) I could almost understand (especially via closed captioning), but...

LH
 

> On Feb 2, 2017, at 4:32 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> Sen. Dianne Feinstein tells CNN that "The GRU and FSB...have been
> rye-balding - [er,] rye-BALDLY - into American political campaigns."
> 
> 'Merrily'? 'Recklessly'? Who knows?
> 
> JL
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