Enter The Dragon

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Wed May 4 01:57:01 UTC 2011


is on the local tube. A cop says to the token black,

"Where you goin' _jig_?"

I've never noticed that before, despite my having seen the movie times
a beaucoup (cooler than "beaucop times" in StL, back in the day). A
clip of the rare-in-the-wild, IME, "jigaboo," no doubt.

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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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