[Ads-l] "uterus" an indecorous word? ("slut" in the news)

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Thu Sep 27 06:30:15 UTC 2018


> WB:  Sounds like the ol' Hail Mary pass.

Nailed it!

On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 12:03 AM W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:
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> WG:  << "Blessed is the fruit of thy womb: Jesus." >>
> WB:  Sounds like the ol' Hail Mary pass. What passed as unorthodox was my
> juvenile re-interpretation:
> << Blessèd is the Fruit of the Loom Jesus. >> (Discovering the image of Our
> Lord in one's underwear? Jeezus!)
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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.
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