[Ads-l] West Hell

Sun Jul 17 14:00:18 UTC 2022

There are a number of hits on Google for "west hell". Most of them are for
a series of fantasy books by Devon Monk or for music recordings, but the
first one is more relevant:

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https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=west%20hell

*west hell*

west hell is another name for west
columbia, SC

*Ayo anything doing down in west*
*hell today*

*by livelovesmoke April 16, 2009*

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There's an identical definition on
nghialagi.net, apparently copied from the above. The site has parallel
listings in English and Vietnamese; I couldn't find an "About us"-type
homepage explaining the site's purpose.

http://nghialagi.net/en/w/west-hell-meaning

MAM

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On Sun, Jul 17, 2022, 9:09 AM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

>  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
> > 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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