Molly Ivins quotes

[Wilson Gray]

To paraphrase Archie Bell, In Texas, we don't only say "red-headed,"
but we also say "black-headed" and "blond-headed."

What Archie actually said was, "We don't only sing, but we dance as
good as we wanna." This references an saying from at least the '50's:
"I'm not as bad as I *can* be. I'm as bad as I *wanna* be."

-Wilson

On 2/1/07, Arnold M. Zwicky <zwicky at csli.stanford.edu> wrote:
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> Subject:      Re: Molly Ivins quotes
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> On Feb 1, 2007, at 11:03 AM, Peter Farruggio wrote:
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> > CAN ANYBODY ANSWER THIS?
> >
> > The challenge for today: The Washington Post's obituary for Molly
> > Ivins says, "In 1982, after she used a colorful colloquialism to
> > describe a local chicken-killing festival, the Times and Ms. Ivins
> > recognized it was time to part ways."
> >
> > What did she say?
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> discussed at:
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>    http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004130.html#more
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> where the Dallas Morning News is quoted:
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> The grey lady and the red-headed one parted ways after Ms. Ivins
> covered a New Mexico community chicken festival and wanted to refer
> to it as "a gang pluck."
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> we still haven't discovered what the name of her dog was.  the NYT
> merely says, "her dog, whose name was an expletive".
>
> arnold
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