[Ads-l] see-you-next-Tuesday, n.

Mark Mandel mark.a.mandel at GMAIL.COM
Tue Mar 12 03:50:24 UTC 2019


Hee!  Thanks, Laurence, for the reminder of that scene!
Mark Mandel


On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 10:23 PM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> > On Mar 11, 2019, at 8:47 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
> >
> > FOX News's Tucker Carlson was caught on audio using the c-word to
> > characterize women.
> >
> > On MSNBC, Nicolle Wallace paraphrased Carlson's remark by saying he
> thinks
> > "women are see-you-next-Tuesday [sic]."
> >
> > I was surprised to find there's even a Wikipedia article on it.
> >
> > JL
> >
>
> Poor Malvolio was living before the age of the backronym, so he had to
> make do…
>
> (Attempting author identification of a [forged] love letter)
> "By my life, this is my lady's hand, these be her very C's, her U's and
> [read: ’n’] her T's and thus makes she her great P’s."
> [Guffaws from the groundlings.]
>  Twelfth Night, II.v
>

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