Flying Fuck (1932)?

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sat Sep 13 18:13:04 UTC 2008


Sigh! Once again, Ron's incisive mind pierces to the heart of the
matter. Oh, well. Ain't no bik thang.

-Wilson

On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 1:27 PM,  <RonButters at aol.com> wrote:
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> This is a joke, right? I mean, the censors "let it pass" because it containe=
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> fucking will" but didn't. But that doesn't mean that the line doesn't mean "=
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> In a message dated 9/12/08 11:23:57 PM, hwgray at GMAIL.COM writes:
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>> Because the censors would have let it pass?
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>> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 10:20 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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>> > At 9/11/2008 09:31 AM, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
>> >>On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 10:10:54PM -0400, David Marc Fischer wrote:
>> >> > I finally saw the movie Scarface (1932) and noticed a line of dialogu=
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>> >> > that goes something like
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>> >> > - They said you could take a flyin'...
>> >> > - Okay, okay.
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>> >> > See the transcript at
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>> >> > I figured I'd share this with all youse word sleuths out there.
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>> >>This quotation is already in HDAS, which has two earlier
>> >>examples of "take a flying...".
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>> > How do we know it isn't "... leap"?
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>> > Joel
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