[Ads-l] Heard on Springer: _Obama phone_; _to peep game_

[Wilson Gray]

_Obama phone_ "an inexpensive cellphone provided as a public service by the
federal government to low-income Americans through a program begun by
President Obama" / "an iPhone provided to the undeserving poor through a
federal give-away program at the expense of hard-working Americans,
initiated by President Oh!Bummer as a part of Obamacare"

Google:

“Obama phone” is the widely used — and misleading — nickname of a
28-year-old federal program known as 'Lifeline.' It provides discounts,
averaging $9.25 a month, on phone service for 13.3 million low-income
subscribers. ... Lifeline was begun not by President Obama, but under
Ronald Reagan.

In the UD since 2009

_to peep game_ "to read between the lines and recognize that a speaker's
'story' is a 'game', i.e. a con"

[More or less the definition provided by the guest, after Jerry asked the
meaning: "She was telling me all this shit, but I peeped game."]

In the UD since 2003
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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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