"Don't rock the boat!"

[Wilson Gray]

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net>
wrote, quoting Larry:

>> > With him were uncounted millions of others, and now the murmur he had
>> > heard from outside the door resolved itself into words as everyone,
>> > standing strainedly on tiptoe, kept muttering, without quite daring to
>> > open his mouth, "Don't make waves! Don't make waves!"

I'd like to make one more emendation, besides the addition of the
devil firing up a hydroplane. Since the guy who told the story to me
was also black, the way that I heard originally it, the murmur
resolved itself into:

"Don't make _no_ waves! Don't make _no_ waves!" :-)
--
-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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