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[Margaret Lee]

I learned it (in the spirit of the black oral tradition) growing up as, "Let the door knob hit you where the good Lord split you," after asking someone to get out of your house.
 
 
--Margaret Lee
 

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sam clements

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> >> The expression that Wilson provides doesn't elucidate the imagery at
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> >>> Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, Inc., wrote thus.
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> >>> Y'all, the expression is,
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> >>> "Don't let the screendoor hit you
> >>> Where the good Lord split you"
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> >>> See there? It make since! <har! har!>  Iss the punchline of a whole
> >>> lot of traditional jokes referencing, e.g. a preacher downing
> >>> congregants walking out on his sermon, If y'all are going to rip us
> >>> off, *please* get it right. It ain't really no need for to half-ass
> >>> black oral tradition into incoherence!
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