Dive (was Re: Sad hour)

[Wilson Gray]

On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 12:00 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

> > My problem isn't with *what* it is, but *why* it is. I can't get a handle
> > on calling a bar A "dove" bar.
>

God DAMN stigmatic, computerized, misspell-check! Which has just replaced
"automatic" with "stigmatic." <sigh!> :-(

"a 'dive' bar"



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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
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