[Ads-l] asphyxiated

[Jonathan Lighter]

Damn! That explains it!

JL

On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 8:31 AM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> > On Jun 10, 2020, at 7:27 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
> >
> > Means 'fixated':
> >
> > Rep. Kevin Kramer, N.D., on CNN re antifa geezer Tweet:
> >
> > "I just saw the Tweet, and I know nothing of the episode. So I don't
> know,
> > I'm not as asphyxiated, I guess, as some people."
> >
> > Conceivably he said "as, as fixiated as," which would be good too.
> >
>
> Maybe he figured he’d be safe now that choke holds are being barred.
>
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