Brother Gay

[paul johnson]

pity the poor script writer, Make it new, make it original, make it real!
response; make it up!

On 11/15/2011 5:21 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 1:40 PM, wordmall<wordmall at aol.com>  wrote:
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>> Inquiry from today's program: "Gather your Peas and Corn, Brother Gay
>> � is predicting War." Any solid information on meaning and origin?
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>> Michael J. Sheehan
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> Not a clue. The other night, I heard, on some cop opera,
>
> Gangster A. Get rid of him!
> Gangster B. I'll do it _Saint Louis-style: in the key of G_.
>
> What? I grew up in StL, but that phrase has no interpretation for me
> whatsoever. Well, I don't know what "Saint Louis-style" barbecued ribs
> are, either.
>
> Maybe it's just me.
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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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