Trussing The Recognitions
Michael Bailey
michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
Mon May 30 04:57:39 CDT 2011
yeah, well, it's still kinda funny to me, which is probably a personal
failing and one that I should address to avoid further embarrassment -
such as the time during a stint as a carpenter's helper when I made a
joke about ruptures and trusses to a man who wore one. egads.
Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Just a little soon-to-expire misreading joke re TR.
>
> We will come to words about ads for trusses during TR's time---
> I remember them in my world a bit later. Scared me.
>
> Anyway, in caps we read RUPTURE!....which I first misread (in caps and all)
> as RAPTURE!.....................
>
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