[Ads-l] WRT to the origin of "over a barrel,"

Mark Mandel markamandel at GMAIL.COM
Fri Aug 23 07:40:04 UTC 2019


Could be.
But not what I would have chosen to see just before going to bed.

MAM

On Fri, Aug 23, 2019, 2:13 AM Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> Cf.
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6jXGrSbQMs
> 00:39:42ff.
>
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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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