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Re: NYC Slang Needed for Newspaper Column

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From: moonman3
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 00:00
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John Starr wrote:
> 
> In dc.general moonman3@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> 
> > John Starr wrote:
> > > This is the second instance I've noticed recently in which nationally
> > > renowned U.S. newspapers have started feature columns with what can only
> > > be described as enthusiastic bemusement.
> >
> > God forbid the newspapers should provide a little levity! . . .
> 
> You appear to have misunderstood what was written, as is further evidenced
> by the rest of your top-of-the-head, interlinear cynicisms, omitted here
> except for this howler:
> 
> > . . .the Post has enough dinosours [sic] to make even you
> > happy...Bozell, Novak, Buchanan, to name a few.
> 
> Who???  Bozell?  Buchanan?  No such columnists ever appear in the
> Washington Post.
> 
> Who's the "dinosour" now?
> 
You, of the learned word, have never heard of 
L. Brent Bozell III and Pat Buchanan?

BTW, D-I-N-O-S-A-U-R! :-)

moonman3@ix.netcom.com

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From: moonman3@ix.netcom.com
Subject: Re: NYC Slang Needed for Newspaper Column
Date: 1997/06/12
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