Mark and Phillis [was: coloured folk: to clarify]

[Baker, John]

        Unfortunately, "was hung in chains" seems to preclude the
Blazing Saddles meaning of "hung."


John Baker



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Subject: Re: Mark and Phillis [was: coloured folk: to clarify]

At 7/21/2011 01:44 PM, Baker, John wrote:
> In an account written 23 years after his ride,
http://www.paul-revere-heritage.com/ride-letter-to-Belknap.html, Revere
wrote,

"After I had passed Charlestown Neck, and got nearly opposite where
Mark _was hung_ in chains ..."

>From the film, Blazing Saddles,

Charlie:
"You shifty nigger! They said you _was hung_!"

Bart:
"And they was right."

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-Wilson

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