[Ads-l] Dialogue from "Blue Bloods"

[Wilson Gray]

"Let's hear it for one our own, who's now _behind the sun_!"

The closing line of a homily by Tom Selleck's character in praise of a
fellow-cop who has retired to Florida, located, by definition, "behind the
sun" = "down South."

I was *very* surprised to hear a white person use the phrase in a manner to
suggest that he understood the meaning.
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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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