[Ads-l] "We now know what SOS really stands for":

[James A. Landau]

On Sat, 14 Oct 2017 15:21:30 Zone - 0400 Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote

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>I read, somewhere or other, perhaps in a funny-book, During The War, 
>that the above is what it stands for. However, in high school in the early
>'50's, I later read, probably in Reader's Digest, that it didn't stand 
>for anything except for what it was: the international distress-signal.

Didn't you learn in the Army that "SOS" stood for "Shit On a Shingle"?

- Jim Landau

PS  Though for the day:  the nut for a Congressional race is 3 to 5 million dollars

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