Spoken during the Cleveland v. Dallas NFL game

Wed Nov 21 22:34:00 UTC 2012

The word 'aloose' has been banging around in my head since reading the post below, and I have suddenly realized where else I had heard it:

'Ridin' along in my calaboose
Still tryin' to get her belt aloose,
All the way home I held a grudge
For the safety belt that wouldn't budge...'

Not being from the South or Midlands, I had always thought Berry had added a syllable to make the song work.

Happy Thanksgiving to you all -

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Kate Svoboda-Spanbock

On Nov 18, 2012, at 2:10 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

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> Subject:      Spoken during the Cleveland v. Dallas NFL game
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> "The  ball *clearly* comes _aloose_!
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> It's been blessed by DARE as South and Midlands. So, I have no more
> interest in noting instances of it, as I slowly recover from the
> ,sob!> soul-searing hurt of having once been told that there was no
> such form.
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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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