"_Cut_ the fool" and "_cut_ the slave" (not really interesting)

[Margaret Lee]

Or as the group The Main Ingredient sang in their 1972 hit, "Everybody plays the fool sometime / There's no exception to the rule/ It may be factual, may be cruel..."

--Margaret Lee


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 From: Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Sent: Monday, August 6, 2012 3:01 PM
Subject: Re: "_Cut_ the fool" and "_cut_ the slave" (not really              interesting)

On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
> Although perhaps this might be it -- from "shape
> by cutting" to "perform, act like" --

What about the _cut_ in, "cut a fart'?

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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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