[Ads-l] groin

Dennis During dcduring at GMAIL.COM
Sun Nov 11 03:55:22 UTC 2018


It sounded odd to me. I thought I only had one groin.  But anatomists say
we have left and right groins. It suppose I have two anatomical groins, but
only one euphemistic groin.

On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 9:51 PM Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:

> According to two different ESPN commentators, a University of Georgia
> football player has had surgery on "both groins."  Doesn't that sound odd?
>
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> --Charlie
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Dennis C. During

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