"sleep gay"?

[Wilson Gray]

What's up with that, Mark? Have you been taking lessons from Larry?
That's a good shot, though, I admit. ;-)

-Wilson

On 3/15/06, Mark A. Mandel <mamandel at ldc.upenn.edu> wrote:
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> Wilson Gray writ:
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> Doesn't anybody else remember "act / talk / live, etc. black and sleep
> white" from the 'Sixties? It looks like ordinary BE syntax to me: "(live
> straight and) sleep gay." I've just awakened from a nap, so I may be
> missing
> the point as a consequence of not being fully alert. If I am missing it,
> you
> know what to do.
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> Sleeping day, Wilson?
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> m a m
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