I Keep Tripping Over

THE SIMILARITY between the words Obamism (or Obama-ism) and onanism. Both the homonymic similarity and the synonymic similarity.

You made up a couple a dem words, dere, pardner.

Without doubt.

You would doubt me?

Well, yes, but that’s beside the point. I mean to say that I made the words up with nary a doubt in my mind that that’s what I was doing.

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Oh. I see.