ace boon-coon

[Wilson Gray]

No need, actually. I've seen this kind of thing done before by at
least one other scholar, Joey Lee Dillard. So I checked and, sure
enough, this, too, is the work of a scholar. The fault is entirely
mine.

-Wilson

On Dec 24, 2007 9:31 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> And perhaps I should have made it clearer that this is a scholarly article....
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>   JL
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> Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> If I was going to get soulful on Euripides's ass, I'd go to Uncle Remus.
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> -Wilson
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> > Rare Classical sighting:
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> > 1998 Marilyn Nelson, in David R. Slavitt & Palmer Bowie, eds. _Euripides 1_ (Phila.: U. of Pennsylvana Press) 74: So Polymestor is Hecuba's homeboy, her brother, her ace-boon- coon.
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