"How about opening up a can of getting-things-done?"
Wilson Gray
hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sun Jun 27 01:06:53 UTC 2010
Spoken by an sE-speaking voiceoverer for some nutha, with that
Hey-kids!-What-time-is-it?! pattern of intonation.
A weird malformation of the dekkids-old BE, "ob'm up a can a whup-ass."
--
-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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