Most Notable Quotations of 2008

[Wilson Gray]

Needless to say! The "Eastside" police seemed not to be able to find
any of the black after-hours joints - Missouri rolled up its sidewalks
at 1:30a.m., hence the local saying, "Into the flivver and across the
river!" - that openly operated there, neon signs, ads in Saint Louis's
black newspapers, and all, even back in the day when East Saint Louis,
today 99.44% black, was white enough to maintain a public-school
system as segregated as any in Missouri, despite Illinois state law,
paying lip-service to said law by siphoning the top athletes and the
top scholars from the black schools to East Saint Louis High and
leaving the dregs to attend Lincoln High.

-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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-Mark Twain



On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> At 12/10/2008 10:30 AM, Wilson Gray wrote:
>>I agree with Gerald. I knew that Illinois had a governor, but I didn't
>>know his name. Professional newsreaders don't even know how to
>>pronounce his name, apparently. They've been calling him "blah
>>GOYyevich." The FBI calls him "blag@ YAYvich." Even when I lived in
>>Saint Louis and partied in East Saint Louis,
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> Illinois was presumably corrupt then also?
>
>>I never knew the name of
>>any governor of Illinois other than Adlai Stevenson. OTOH, I've always
>>known who the ruling lord mayor of Chicago and baron of Cook County
>>was.
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> But his name was easier to pronounce, and remained the same for long stretches.
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> Joel
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