Judge Judy: "There was a gate. They had somebody there in a _stiff collar_. Nobody got past that gate."

[Wilson Gray]

Thus spake the judge, reminiscing about her women's-dorm years.

Back in Saint Louis we used the term, "stiff _shirt_," to name a
starched, collared, white dress-shirt always worn with jacket and tie
- in those days, at least - the kind called a _waishatsu_ in Japanese.

It's not clear whether Judge Judy's "stiff collar" and my "stiff
shirt" have the same meaning. But, WTF, eh?

--
-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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