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[Bill Mullins]

>   In an interesting example of its currency, it also occurs in a highly
>   publicized recording featured on 20/20 in which the speaker on the
>   recording shouts: "Bó, you fuckin smilin like it's fuckin funny!! [...] My
>   fuckin girlfriend gone, bó!"

This is a better quality recording of his words.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHm4joezYsk

Different people hear things differently, but if I were transcribing his speech, I'd have written:
"Boy you're [words run together] f---in smilin . . . My f---in girlfriend's gone, bro!"

Given that the speaker is intoxicated and is slurring his speech, I don't think one can be definitive about this.

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