"A hard road to hoe"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Vice versa, In the Seattle area there was (and probably still is) a loathing
of "Skid Row" as a perversion of "Skid Road."  There may well be a basis to
this in fact.

JL

On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 11:21 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> That's true. But what surprised me is that Google shows that this a
> favorite *pet peeve* of a surprising number of "ordinary," so to
> speak, people. I took only a casual glance at the first few hits, but
> it seemed as though there are almost as many instances of people
> bitching about the fact that there are people who use this as there
> are instances of people who use this.
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> Me myself, as we say in the 'hood, I'm not annoyed by it at all.
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> -Wilson
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> On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 10:05 PM, Mark Mandel<thnidu at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >> I heard this - spoken by a Judge - for the first time, yesterday.
> >> However, a quick googling showed me that I'm away <har! har!> behind
> >> the curve - or is that  "way behind the curb"? - on this one. Ordinary
> >> people, not just we
> >> my-god-how-can-you-possibly-fxck-up-a-millenia-old-cliche types, are
> >> going nuts over this one.
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> > And the answer, although you didn't ask and I'm sure you're aware, is
> that
> > most of us are at least a couple of generations removed from hoeing rows
> of
> > crops, or weeding or picking or doing anything else with them.
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> > Alas.
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> -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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