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- From: kassover@rumsey.crd.ge.com (David Kassover)
- Newsgroups: misc.kids
- Subject: Re: "my wife and I are pregnant" - NO WAY
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.164803.25256@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 16:48:03 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec19.175312.18764@newstand.syr.edu> kgatling@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Keith E Gatling) writes:
- >Well, I'm not an English teacher, and I don't play one on TV either, but I
- >think I'll enter the fray on semantical grounds here.
- >
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- Student: Teacher, what part of the body is the fray?
- Teacher: Fray? Fray isn't a body part.
- Student: But it says right here in my history book that the general was
- shot in the thick of the fray.
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- Student: Mama, Teacher says I have to have meanings for words.
- What does pregnant mean?
- Mother: Uh, carrying a child
- ...
- Student: Teacher, pregnant meand carrying a child
- Teacher: Good. Now use it in a sentence.
- Student: The fireman ran into the burning building and came out
- pregnant.
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- OBTW, Lynn Johnston's first published book was entitled _David,
- We're Pregnant_. Ms. Johnston currently draws "For Better or
- Worse"
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- David Kassover "Proper technique helps protect you against
- uupsi!khazad!kassover sharp weapons and dull judges."
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