[Ads-l] asphyxiated

Mark Mandel markamandel at GMAIL.COM
Wed Jun 10 16:21:09 UTC 2020


(Had to resend, forgot that pic attachments are disallowed.)

On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 11:59 AM Mark Mandel <markamandel at gmail.com> wrote:
as long as we can keep reacting to such conversations as this, as long as
they don't instate joke holds

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MAM

On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 9:19 AM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
Damn! That explains it!
>
>>
>> JL
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 8:31 AM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
>> wrote:
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>> > > 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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