[Ads-l] West Hell

[Paul A Johnston]

Anyone who went to U. of Michigan knows Hell, MI, just as little northwest of Ann Arbor.  my college used to hold retreats at Pinckney, a little farther so that you "had to go through Hell to get there."  They used to have an antique store called the Den of Antiquity, and you could gert stamped first-day covers at the local post office.  Don't know if either is still there; I went to Hell in 1971-asnd made it out.
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There's a town in Norway called Hell.  There's a train station there with H=
ELL in big letters on it.  They have a cottage business selling postcards o=
f the station, mostly with "I've been to Hell and back" or the like.
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_West Hell_

Kinda in ordinary use amongst the colored everywhere, not merely amongst
those in "Lousy Banana." Indeed, "up until now," I thought that its use was
universal.

On Fri, Jun 24, 2022 at 11:06 AM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Don Lemon on CNN this morning:
>
> "As we would say growing up in Louisiana, 'There's no way in West Hell'"
> that Trump didn't believe he'd lost the election.
>
> 1931 in Z. N. Hurston _Collected Plays_ (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers U.P=
.,
> 2008) 103: Yeah, and you stand up there and tell me that just one more
> time, and I'm going to beat you if they have a lawsuit in West Hell. Ibid=
.
> 219: Somebody is goin' to West Hell before midnight!
>
> 1993 _Detroit Free Press_ (Aug. 8) 7H  : Juke joints where the moonshine
> runs "as clear as spring water and as fiery as the Fourth of July in West
> Hell."
>
> 2006 John H. Eaves _Speakers of the House_ 50 (Google Books): No way in
> West Hell will I get myself into that again.
>
> JL
> --
> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth=
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