Dave Chappelle: "Y'all have no idea...
Wilson Gray
hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Fri Aug 29 00:27:05 UTC 2014
how outrageous some of these ads have become. _Here goes_ one, now."
Considering that it's Chappelle, (in)famous for, among other things, his
fearless use of the magic word - AKA "the n-word" - in any and all
circumstances, with utter disregard for political correctness, it's
surprising that he would feel that he had to "correct" the innocuous
"standard" BE, "here go..." After all, it's *still* not standard English,
despite the "correction."
Youneverknow.
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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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