[Ads-l] Heard on re-run of The Office

[paul johnson]

An old friend, Connie Blazewitz, always refereed to them as 'tennie pumps'


On 2/27/2018 7:03 AM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
> For some of us, all tennis shoes are sneakers, but not all sneakers are
> tennis shoes.
>
> On Feb 26, 2018 11:06 PM, "Wilson Gray" <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> "She gets the 'whitest _sneakers_' award because she always has the whitest
>> _tennis shoes_."
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>> This is the second time that I've come across the mixing of regional
>> lexical-variants in a single sentence. I'm starting to lose sleep!😳
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>> -Wilson
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>> 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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“The pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense 
damnable” From a letter of complaint over the standardization of golfing 
equipment. 1902

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