Can a have an A, men?

[Wilson Gray]

Rex W. Stocklin wrote:

"I assume my posts are annoying little laic gnats in the rarified air
of all your wordsmiths ..."

So, Rex, when you wrote the above, you were writing in earnest?!

My apologies.

-Wilson

–––
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, Feb 4, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Rex W. Stocklin
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> At 8:21 AM -0500 2/4/09, Wilson Gray wrote:
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>>Well, you know how the colored are. They are a strange and inscrutable people.
>
> Aren't we all?
>
>>If it has escaped your notice till now, then you are one of the
>>fortunate many who have been able to live lives that don't involve
>>contact with those people.
>
> Sarcasm aside, I am NOT a secluded fat white boy (well two outta
> three's not bad). I've, um, mixed it up with our swarthy sibs from
> playing hoops to dating to Sunday-goin'-to-meetin'. Additionally, I
> am well-submerged into urban culture, even at this late date. I found
> it an odd thing. Thassall. I ain't ever heard of it before now. Oh
> SNAP!
>
>>It will be decades before the standard that the mellifluously-fluent
>>President Bush, whose oratory set a standard that will not soon be
>>surpassed.
>
> Oh trust me, I am NOT complaining. I feel a weight lifted, though
> certainly an entertainment factor also is AWOL. What WILL Jon & Dave
> do?
>
> At least I got one explanation from my query. That's worth the foray.
>
> I go back to navel-grazing, thanks for the ear.
> Indiana Rex
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