Just wondering

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Fri Feb 29 05:49:48 UTC 2008


Has anyone else besides me noticed that whites say, "Up yours!",
whereas blacks say "Your ass!" (I'm assuming that "Up yours!" is also
a clip of "[Fuck you] up your ass!")

-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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                                              -Sam'l Clemens

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