[Ads-l] _pussy-good_ "very good, as good as one could possibly want, the best"

[Wilson Gray]

On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 8:11 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Jere


I went to high school with a guy whose first name was “Jere.” He pronounced
it “Jerry,” instead of the expected - by me, anyway - "Jeer.”

Youneverknow.

I was in the Army with a guy named “Peacock.” There was also a black boxer
by that surname, back when.

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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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