OT, but grotesquely amusing

[George Thompson]

I've heard the expression "to beat like a rented mule" and "red-headed stepchildren" have figured in posts here, several years ago, not to their advantage.

GAT

George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.

----- Original Message -----
From: Doug Harris <cats22 at stny.rr.com>
Date: Friday, May 15, 2009 11:34 pm
Subject: Re: OT, but grotesquely amusing
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> That is horrible!!! But it _is_ mildly amusing. (I've heard something
> like
> it before, but I don't know where or when.) (That last line belongs in
> a
> song.)
> dh
>
> Prepared and sent with Chaos Software's Intellect mail client.
> Intellect's contacts and appointments managers also are cool.
>
> ----- Original message ----------------------------------------
> From: "Wilson Gray" <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Received: 5/15/2009 11:14:15 PM
> Subject: OT, but grotesquely amusing
>
>
> >" ... beat [someone] like a mixed-race stepchild."
>
> >-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.
> >-----
> >-Mark Twain
>
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