[Ads-l] YouTubery: "I guess you never heard of a _wheelbarrel_."

[Dave Hause]

Right.  Or be the first to make the joke.
Dave Hause

-----Original Message----- 
From: Laurence Horn
Sent: Friday, April 19, 2019 10:02 AM
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: YouTubery: "I guess you never heard of a _wheelbarrel_."

> On Apr 19, 2019, at 11:00 AM, Jesse Sheidlower <jester at PANIX.COM> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 10:58:11AM -0400, Laurence Horn wrote:
>>>
>>> I was asked about this when I was doing the Word of the Day site at 
>>> Random House, so many years ago:
>>>
>>> https://web.archive.org/web/20011214023332/http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=19960725
>>>
>>
>> 'The only thing you can do to avoid such problems is education: make sure 
>> that people, whether they're your friends with "wheelbarrel" or the 
>> marketing department of a fancy cosmetics company with “smooth[e]”, know 
>> what the truth is. They'll thank you for it.’
>>
>> …or not
>
> (That was a private joke.)
>
Yup, I just wanted to save others from possible relationship hazards.
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