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Chris -- 2025-05-10
A political meme circulating on Facebook this week accuses Newt Gingrich of leaving his “cancer-sticking” wife. Haven’t seen it elsewhere. Does it mean she’s stuck with cancer?
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My wife is dead and I had to find out from an autopsy report that she was a cancer-stickin’-time bomb…
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Also, there seem to be quite a few examples of “cancer sticken” online, but they could easily be typos, and it’d be difficult if not impossible to distinguish typos from eggcorns in this case, so I decided not to go there.
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Perhaps what lies behind this is the phrase ‘stick it to the man’ which, with its defiant challenge, must surely have influenced the Stick it to Cancer charity. My guess is that Mrs Gingrich is either a stoical sufferer of cancer or a supporter of such a charity.Does it mean she’s stuck with cancer?
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