"Tell me something good!"

[Tom Zurinskas]

"Tell me something I don't know" use to be a phrase in CT way back when.  Sometimes smartalecky.

When would one use "Tell me something good"?


Tom Zurinskas, Conn 20 yrs, then Tenn 3, NJ 33, now FL 9.
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> The only person I've ever heard use this expression is from Texas also.
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> JL
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> On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 11:18 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
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> > On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 8:23 PM, Charles C Doyle wrote:
> > > Of course, I am many generations younger than you, Wilson. =C2 But "Tel=
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> > something good!" was common among white east Texans in the 1950s and 1960=
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> > 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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