Tiger Woods

[Harrold Wilson Gray]

On Sep 2, 2005, at 7:36 AM, Dennis R. Preston wrote:

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Back in the olden days, ca.1955, there was a version that ended, "...
when the fit hit the Shan." I've forgotten the set-up/lead-in, or
whatever term it is that I'm searching for here.

-Wilson

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