[Ads-l] West Hell

[Jonathan Lighter]

 East Hell is probably posher.

JL

On Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 10:38 PM Paul A Johnston <paul.johnston at wmich.edu>
wrote:

> 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
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> f the station, mostly with "I've been to Hell and back" or the like.
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> _West Hell_
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> 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.
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> On Fri, Jun 24, 2022 at 11:06 AM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> > 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
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