[Ads-l] White guy uses and extends use of _behind_ “as a consequence of, resulting from”

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Wed Sep 20 05:43:50 UTC 2017


Undercover ATFE agent talking about posing as buyers of home-made bombs:

“We were okay, as long as we made a lot of buys that there were no arrests
_behind_.”

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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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