You can take the boy out of the 'hood …

[Wilson Gray]

But you can't take 'hood out of the boy!

"What the profession all these senators in Congress are?!"
- Neil deGrasse Tyson

Only trivially distinct from,

"What your name is?"
"What the number that bus is?"
et sim.
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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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