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[Wilson Gray]

On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 6:00 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

> I won't get into why, because it makes little sense.


Preach it. It's as stupid as liking _noise_ (in context, a common BE cover
for "bullshit," "and so forth," the usual "translation" of etc.) like
"African-American."


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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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