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[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

>I should point out that "half pas(t)" occurred only in this locution
>and not in ordinary speech. To quote Richard Pryor:
>
>Q. "What y'all waitin' for?"
>A. "'Leven-thirty. Don't nothin' start happenin' till eleven-thirty."

As I recall it, the answer is "Leven-thirty.  We gonna pitch a bitch at eleven-thirty."
(Perhaps this line followed the one quoted by Wilson??

This was the first time I ever heard "pitch a bitch", a phrase which has served me well over the intervening years.

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