Tiger Woods

[Dennis R. Preston]

Let us not forget the boy with "teaks of Chan," who was queried as to
his whereabouts "when the shit hit the fan."

dInIs

>Wilson Gray writes:
>>I've just heard one of our loocal newsreaders describe Tiger Woods as
>>"looking  _tan_." It reminded me of the time that a black student
>>walked barefooted into the student center at Washintoon U. in St,
>>Louis, moving a white student to quote, "Blessings on thee, little
>>man! / Barefoot boy with CHEEK!" stopping himself before finishing the
>>line with "... of tan!"
>
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>Might also have been thinking of /Barefoot Boy with Cheek/, a humorous book
>by Max Shulman  that came out in the '40s.  [Was Barefoot Boy  one of Jas
>Whitcomb Riley's?  I remember having to memorize it in grade school, but
>can't now call up any more lines.]
>A. Murie


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Dennis R. Preston
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