[Ads-l] Bunkum and Occam

[Jonathan Lighter]

I feel that "bunk" was more common.

Henry Ford even said "History is bunk," long before it was cool to think so.

JL

On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 11:19 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 6:03 AM, Stephen Goranson <goranson at duke.edu>
> wrote:
>
> > palaver
>
>
> Once a very common word, appearing even in comic-books, in the glory days
> of the Western movie.
>
>
> --
> -Wilson
> -----
> 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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