[Ads-l] childs

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Fri May 27 16:45:50 UTC 2022


Presumably it was a mere slip prompted by the familiar collocation
"innocent child."

JL

On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 12:11 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Just now on CNN, sixtyish Col. Steve McCraw, Director of the Texas
> Department of Public Safety, has denounced the "murder of 19 innocent
> childs and two adults."
>
> JL
>
> --
> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
>


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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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