"Walk the plank", 1763

[Jonathan Lighter]

Pirate scholars maintain that there is no evidence that "walking the
plank" was a popular diversion, and far less that it was a well-known
phrase.

JL

On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 10:29 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
>> one of their confederates ... _turned_
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> Prosecutors still work toward this end.
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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.
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