[Ads-l] Facebookery from West Virginia

Dan Goncharoff thegonch at GMAIL.COM
Thu Jan 18 15:17:41 UTC 2018


Why? "To course-correct" goes back to 1979 and maybe earlier, and Google
has lots of uses starting in the 90s.

On Jan 18, 2018 9:15 AM, "Jonathan Lighter" <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:

Better than "course-corrected"!

JL

On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 11:06 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> "You went to Basic and you were _hand-helded_."
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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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