[ADS-L] Heard on local NE PA news

[RonButters at AOL.COM]

Wilson, you need to get out more. This is so commonp-lace that there is no 
need to mention it here. And it has been documented in ADS publications for 
about a hundred years. 


In a message dated 1/25/10 6:20:30 PM, hwgray at GMAIL.COM writes:


> Reporter covering flooding of Toby(sp?) Creek, caused by day-long,
> heavy rains in Wyoming County:
> 
> "What's it been like, today?"
> 
> Forty-ish local:
> 
> "It's just been awful. I've never seen the creek _[krIk]_ like this 
> before!"
> 
> 
> The first time that I've ever that pronunciation in the wild.
> 
> --
> -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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