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[Barretts Mail]

Someone off-list kindly told me that this refers to an earlier evolutionary state of homo sapiens. It doesn’t quite make sense to me, but at least I get it now. BB

> On 16 Feb 2018, at 14:30, Barretts Mail <mail.barretts at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> What does skin-clad mean, other than having skin? BB
> 
>> On 16 Feb 2018, at 14:25, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>> 
>> When I was in high-school, one of my brow-ridged, skin-clad classmates knew
>> a jolly witticism. He'd ask, "What's 3q + 1q?"
>> 
>> Get ready to laugh. When you'd say, "Four q," he'd say, "You cussin' me
>> out?!" Then he'd feign a punch to your mouth.
>> 
>> Humor's golden age.
>> 
>> JL
>> 
>> On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 2:37 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Then there’s “fork”, popularized in (and possibly limited to) the world of
>>> “The Good Place” (NBC-TV), as in “what the fork(?)"
>>> 
>>> LH
>>> 
>>>> On Feb 16, 2018, at 10:11 AM, W Brewer <brewerwa at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> << Frak or frack is a fictional version of "fuck" first used in the
>>>> 1978-Battlestar Galactica television series. It continues to be used
>>>> throughout different versions of the Battlestar Galactica franchise as a
>>>> profanity in science fiction. >>  -----Wikip


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