[Ads-l] Heard in a Christmas-dinner conversation:

[Wilson Gray]

_dunks_ "basketball shoes"; < Nike "Dunk," a brand-name dating from 1985.

http://news.nike.com/news/inside-access-the-iconic-nike-dunk-turns-30

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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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