fan-hitting

[Wilson Gray]

Thanks, Sam! That sounds closest to the answer to my original
question: how old is the expression? My other question is, of course,
unanswerable: how did it happen that I was totally unaware of the
original expression till after i had heard the feghoot of it? The
story was told by a black buddy to a group of us and I was the only
one who had to have it explained to him. So, clearly, it wasn't a
racial thing.

Oh, well.

-Wilson

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 10:56 AM, Sam Clements <SClements at neo.rr.com> wrote:
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> You can find this in Newspaper archive in 1950 by using "stuff" hits the =
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