Date:  Wed, 3 May 1995 02:00:00 LCL

From:  "M. Lynne Murphy" <104LYN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MUSE.ARTS.WITS.AC.ZA>

Subject: Re: one X short of a Y



i used to live with someone who collected these phrases. the only

one i remember now was in an article in _details_ magazine about

working at mcdonalds, which claimed that an asian-american worker

there was something like "a few tiles short of a mah jong (sp?)

set."



a few months ago a friend sent me a long list of creative ways to

describe stupid people---one of those "humor" pieces that makes its

way around the internet a few hundred times. that had a lot of

variations on this theme. anyone else have it?



lynne



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