I don't give a stuff

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Fri Oct 29 06:01:02 UTC 2010


On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Garson O'Toole
<adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 1910 I don't give a rap

This is the only one that I've ever heard in the wild, as opposed to
seen in books and heard in movies or on radio and TV.

FWIW, of course. There's no conclusion that I draw from this. A friend
from Wake County, NC, uses it.
--
-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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