swamp yankee

[Wilson Gray]

On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Like so many other derogatory words, it is not an insult
> when we use it to describe ourselves.

He probably should add, "... among people with whom we're personally
acquainted." Even if you yourself are a "nigger," anyone else who is a
nigger that you address as "nigger," using any of its many
pronunciations, must be a friend of yours, unless your intention is to
urinate off that person.

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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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