Inquiring minds want to know...
Wilson Gray
hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Fri Aug 3 02:06:23 UTC 2012
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 9:09 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
> Amy Poehler's associate on "Parks and Recreation"
Now, *that's* something that I *didn't* know.
On the Daily Show, she mentioned that, because her father is black,
she had once considered _Jones_ to be some kind of slave name. But,
she has now found out that it is, in fact, a Welsh name.
Yes, that's right. It is a Welsh name.
Wait, what?
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-Wilson
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