[Ads-l] gird, n. (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Jonathan Lighter]

I almost forgot:

What's the word? Thunderbird!

JL

On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 11:47 AM MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY CCDC
AVMC (USA) <0000099bab68be9a-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:

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> What's the word?
> Johannesberg
> Gil Scott-Heron, 1975
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> > ----
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> > More precisely, gird gird gird gird is the word.
> >
> > JL
> >
> > On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 7:07 PM Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > > gird is the word.
> > >
> > > Two thumbs up!
> > >
> > > On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 10:09 AM Jonathan Lighter
> > > <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Duluth Trading Co. is urging guys to "lull their loins" with a pair
> > > > of
> > > its
> > > > "Dang Soft Underwear."  ("Like a pillow for your package.")
> > > >
> > > > Caution-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xQ-pzcYBlU
> > > >
> > > > But the issue here is that Dang Soft is also "like a cuddly panda
> > > > hugged your gird."
> > > >
> > > > Maybe they mean "girth," but idiomatically even that's a (wait for
> > > > it) stretch.
> > > >
> > > > But gird is the word.  Maybe because "loins" are involved.
> > > >
> > > > JL
> > > >
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