Heard on Springer: _whore_ > "dog"; woman addressed as "man"

[Wilson Gray]

Thirty-ish, white male speaker:

"I'm a _whore_ [hor], Jerry. I done slept with 340 different women. I
ain't nothin' but a dang ol' _whore_ [ho]."


IME, "hippie"-types have been vocativing women as "dude" for the past
half-century. Here of late, I've been hearing black male "guests"
vocativing women as "man," when stressed-out, at least:

"I gave up a football scholarship to the University of Arkansas for you, _man_!"

Just this instant heard a forty-ish white male do the same thing:

She: "I'm leaving you."
He: "What?!!! Tiffany! Come on, man!"

A Cracker-Jack-prize-level catch from a thirty-ish, black male speaker:

"I've been a dog all my life, Jerry. But, now, this dog done turnt
into a _werewolf_!"

An exaggeration, since he was merely knocking it out on the side with
the thirty-ish babysitter, tipping her a little extra. That's not
exactly player-grade action.

A twenty-ish, white-male audience-member says to a male guest:

"You've been _rocking_ both those women, but …"

strangely using _rock_ as a cover for "fuck." How quaint!

Youneverknow.;-)

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-Wilson
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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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