Okratini?

[Amy West]

Has Barry looked into this alleged okratini?

I am another Northerner in the pro-okra contingent.

---Amy West

>Date:    Thu, 18 Oct 2007 20:24:49 -0400
>From:    Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
>Subject: Re: "I ate so much okra I slid out of bed!" (1930s? East Texas?)
>
>At 10:10 PM -0300 10/18/07, David A. Daniel wrote:
>>God regards okra with abomination. Okra, as also he who eats okra, is
>>abominated by God. Slime, disgust, revulsion and putrefaction are all states
>>of being associated with the existence, presence, ingestion of okra.
>>DAD
>
>OK, no okratinis for you.  Even if you beg.
>
>LH

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