[Ads-l] Why do I keep hearing...

[Wilson Gray]

"Jim being black" - which, annoyingly, *always* captures my attention,
instead of
"Jim Beam Black" - in which I have no interest whatsoever?

Life is unfair.😳

-- 
-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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