"Who-shot-John"

[Wilson Gray]

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
> In 1980, of course, that became "Who shot John Ross?"

Say what? I don't  get the reference.

A friend of mine from North Carolina - he of "up the skreek" fame -
calls the Virginia kind of who-shot-john "HOO-raw."

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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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