[Ads-l] the KY

[Peter Reitan]

And "The O.C." seems to me to have originally been an ironic twist on "The LBC."
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"The [Two Letters]" may have more to do with "The O.C." if I had to guess.

On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 1:09 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> Reminiscent of "The Lou" for Saint Louis and of "the Cope, the Stock, and
> the Dam" for the Big Three of Copenhagen, Stockholm, and Amsterdam, not to
> mention Charlie Parker's "Scrapple from the Apple."
>
> On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 7:59 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > David Gregory, author, anchor , and commentator on CNN:
> >
> > "The KY is so fascinating, both because I have a lot of family down in
> the
> > KY, which the governor knows, but you've also got Mitch McConnell, you
> got
> > Rand Paul. It's fascinating!"
> >
> >
>

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