The TV judges

[Wilson Gray]

Thanks, David.

-Wilson

On 1/25/07, David Borowitz <borowitz at stanford.edu> wrote:
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> Unless Wikipedia is wrong, the only Raleigh County in the US is in West
> Virginia. Raleigh, NC (the only other one I could think of offhand) is in
> Wake County.
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._counties_in_alphabetical_order
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> Dave
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> On 1/24/07, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Heard on the Judge Joe Brown show:
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> > The speaker is a 25-or-so-year-old black male:
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> > "It didn't feel much like home, the way she _stayed_ snatching the key
> > back from me."
> >
> > This is a new one on me. I would have expected "kept (on)" or "was
> > always."
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> > On the Peoples Court, there was a forty-ish white male who spoke an
> > ordinary r-ful Southern dialect, except that he pronounced /ai/ as
> > [oi] in all environments. He mentioned that he lived in Raleigh
> > County. Unfortunately, no town or state was mentioned. He was suing a
> > former friend - they were even members of the same church - but the
> > friend used the ordinary Southern pronunciation of /ai/ that's usually
> > spelled "ah" in eye-dialect.
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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.
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> > -Sam'l Clemens
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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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