[Ads-l] cake-eater

[Amy West]

On 11/10/25 00:00, ADS-L automatic digest system wrote:
> Date:    Sun, 9 Nov 2025 07:46:14 -0500
> From:    Jonathan Lighter<wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: cake-eater
>
> An odd use of a term I thought disappeared many decades ago.
>
> https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-fires-off-more-doomed-204359786.html
> :
>
> "Rick Scott is a shameless cake eater for writing a bill that he would
> never have bothered with if Trump wasn't the President."
>
> JL

Huh.

And then there was the character in the Lemony Snicket _Series of 
Unfortunate Events_ books who used "cake sniffer" as an insult.

---Amy West

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