[Ads-l] Facebookery: "Stay _y'all ass_ on your back!!!"

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Mon Nov 28 01:05:12 UTC 2016


On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 7:41 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I associate "stood" with Chester Riley-type characters.


"What a revoltin' development this is!" "My head is made up!" Digby
"Digger" Odell, "The Friendly Undertaker." Professor Kropotkin. William
Bendix. Hans Conried.

Those were the days.


-- 
-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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