Heard on Judge Joe Brown:

James Harbeck jharbeck at SYMPATICO.CA
Thu Jul 12 00:47:45 UTC 2007


>"Didn't no kid ride no bicycle into no house!"

I love this. The negative concordance is so thoroughgoing! "Logical"
analysis (which insists that double negatives are positives) should
hand in its foil and weep in the face of the efficacy of phrases such
as this. It brings to mind vulgar concordance, as in the classic
phrase "Fuck off, ya fuckin' fuck" and, rather more loosely, one I
recently saw, "Our good shit makes their shit look like shit."

James Harbeck.

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