"Tell me something good!"

[Jonathan Lighter]

The only person I've ever heard use this expression is from Texas also.

JL

On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 11:18 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 8:23 PM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
> > Of course, I am many generations younger than you, Wilson. Â But "Tell me
> something good!" was common among white east Texans in the 1950s and 1960s
> as well!
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> Excellent! Even a generation or so removed, Stevie Wonder still has
> Texas blood circulating through the caverns of his creative mind! ;-)
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