[Ads-l] Kevin Hart speaks:

[Wilson Gray]

“I was haul-assing out of there!”

Sigh! Once upon a time, one would have said,

“I was hauling ass out of there.”

Oh, well. At least as far back as ca.1960, GI’s were already no longer
“grabbing ass.” They were “grab-assing,” instead.

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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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