Heard on The Judges: and yet they live!

[Darla Wells]

My friend Lester in Wichita Falls, Texas, has been saying that for years. It
seems to be common usage there.
Darla

2010/2/10 Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com>

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> This one's primarily for Jon:
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> Mid-twenty-ish, black male speaker from Buffalo, NY:
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> "I didn't have no time, your honor! As it was, I was _ripping and
> running_ and trying to do everything at the same time!"
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> This is the first time that I've heard "ripping and running" spoken in
> perhaps seventy years and the first time that I've come across it at
> all, since the publication of the book with that title in 1973.
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> Mid-seventy-ish, silver-haired, white male speaker:
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> "Well, your honor, it was back in 'aught-six. I was ..."
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> Judge:
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> I hope that that's *twenty*-aught-six! How old are you?!"
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> It wasn't made clear, but the speaker was undoubtedly just funning. I
> really doubt that this man could possibly have been over a hundred
> years old.
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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.
> –Mark Twain
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