Heard on The Judges: and yet they live!

[Wilson Gray]

Wichita Falls? Darla, according to Hank Hill, that's not Texas, it's
Southern Oklahoma. But seriously, folks, I, too, know "rippin' an'
runnin' " as a Texas thang. I learned it from my late grandmother when
I was a child in Marshall, Texas, way back when.

-Wilson

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Darla Wells <lethe9 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> My friend Lester in Wichita Falls, Texas, has been saying that for years. I=
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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!"=96=96a strange complaint t=
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>> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
>> =96Mark Twain
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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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