"out of" = 'in' (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill CIV (US)]

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>
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 8:22 AM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu>
> wrote:
>
>
> In the introduction of pugilists who are about to compete in
> "Ultimate
> Fighting" bouts (we all watch those, don't we?) a fuller locution is
> customarily employed, which has struck me as especially odd.  For
> example, "Fighting out of Athens, Georgia: Forrest Griffin."
>

Reminds me of the introductions of masked wrestlers from the 1960s (and
before?):
"from parts unknown".

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