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To: Pappy Smear
My favorite they use is "strap hanger". That is used to describe people on the subway.

Newspapers often spell it as a compound word, without a hyphen: "straphanger" - which makes me think that it ought to be pronounced "strafanger."

Regards,

31 posted on 06/22/2022 10:08:54 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: alexander_busek

Strafangers are orthodontia for vampires.


37 posted on 06/23/2022 1:02:34 AM PDT by ExGeeEye (For dark is the suede that mows like a harvest.)
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