Junk terms (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Wilson Gray]

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Ben Zimmer
<bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
> "Fonda ain't got a motor in the back of her Honda," perhaps an inspiration for "junk/trunk"?

I really, really, really have serious reservations about that
possibility. Youneverknow. But, as Richard Pryor put it,

"Unreal. An' I ain't goin' fo' it."

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-Wilson
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