"Ain't _I'm_ pretty?"

[Jonathan Lighter]

I've seen the ad a number of times but I haven't noticed "I'm."

My guess is that Terry (Shreveport, La.) just nasalizes "I" a little more
than most of us.

JL

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 8:12 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Terry Bradshaw in his Nutrisystem ad.
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> I know that Terry is one of them good folk who come from home, but,
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> "Is it real? Or is it Memorex?"
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