[Ads-l] sharing the tank

[Laurence Horn]

> On Aug 21, 2018, at 9:36 AM, Arnold M. Zwicky <zwicky at STANFORD.EDU> wrote:
> 
>> On Aug 21, 2018, at 6:17 AM, Mark Mandel <mark.a.mandel at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>> 
>> Typo there for "talk"?
>> 
>> Mark Mandel
>> 
>> On Tue, Aug 21, 2018, 6:45 AM David Daniel <dad at coarsecourses.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> From Gizmodo: "Tesla shares tank after tearful Elon Musk interview freaks
>>> people out." Apparently, before the interview, Tesla had been keeping the
>>> tank for itself.
>>> DAD
> 
> no.  this verb _tank_ (from NOAD(:
> 
> 2 US informal fail completely, especially at great financial cost.
> 
> Tesla shares dropped drastically after the interview.
> 
> arnold
> 

At which point all of which the shareholders responded “Tanks a million, Elon”.  

Sorry :-)

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