one more tautology

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Thu Apr 29 02:46:07 UTC 2010


Ah, that's Eddie "*Mr.* Cleanhead" Vinson.

-Wilson

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Eric Nielsen <ericbarnak at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I can't remember if this one was already mentioned, but it just popped into
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> "Whatever will be, will be"
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> Thanks, Doris
> I guess it's not a tautology, but while I'm on the verb to be, I've just got
> to mention that great song by Eddie Cleanhead Vinson:
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> "I Need to Be Bee'd With".
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> Eric
> On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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>> "A man has gotta do what a man has gotta do."
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>> Recently heard on a rerun of "Simon and Simon."
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>> Joel
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-Wilson
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