Obama warns of the "old okey-doke"
David Bergdahl
dlbrgdhl at GMAIL.COM
Thu Jan 24 18:06:28 UTC 2008
Me, too! I only know the rhyme of O.K. with a vague "radio cowboy"
connotation (dokey = doggie??) Also a Yankee boy ... of 67 yrs.
-db
Scott wrote:
*Which "okey-dokey" sense do you mean here? Like Amy, I've never heard of
the
sense used by Obama. But then again, I'm just a Yankee boy and it might not
have made it up here except to mean "OK."
*
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