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

[Wilson Gray]

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Baker, John <JMB at stradley.com> wrote:
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> Â  Â  Â  Â Unfortunately, "was hung in chains" seems to preclude the
> Blazing Saddles meaning of "hung."
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> John Baker
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Right. I was just joking.:-)

(Sorry, Ron, but "I gotta be me," to coin a phrase.)
-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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> Subject: Re: Mark and Phillis [was: coloured folk: to clarify]
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> 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,
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> "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."
>
> --
> -Wilson
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