Sally's "gone round and round"

[Wilson Gray]

Sally's phrase brought a tear to my eye in sorrow for my lost youth.
When I was so young that a post re "final expenses" would have held no
interest for me, basic-training NCO's routinely used the threat, "Me
'n' yew gon' go 'roun' 'n' 'roun', so'juh! I'll take these stripes
offa my sleeves, take yew b'hin' the barracks, and whup yo' / yore
ass, boy!"

After we got out of basic, use of the phrase was good for a chuckle:
"if you don't un-ass my fartsack, you and me are gonna go 'round and
'round!

Anyway, I had no idea that the phrase had escaped the confines of the military.

-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.
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-Sam'l Clemens

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