[Ads-l] Facebookery: "Stay _y'all ass_ on your back!!!"
Jonathan Lighter
wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Mon Nov 28 11:47:59 UTC 2016
...of 1313 Blue View Terrace.
JL
On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 8:05 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
> -----
> 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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