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Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Thu Apr 14 05:49:28 UTC 2011


On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 12:14 PM, victor steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com> wrote:
> getting a _"rep"_


Interesting that _rep_ is so old. In the '50's and '60's, getting a
_rep_ as a "bad motherfucker" in some mental or physical field of
endeavor was, perhaps, the primary method of gaining "respect."
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-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.
-Mark Twain

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