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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican

hmmm
I had ‘heard’ it had something to do with a broken string.....


51 posted on 09/17/2017 9:20:31 PM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98)""If the earth were flat, cats would have pushed everything over the edge by now")
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To: xrmusn

I think I know what you are referring to, and that might be right for all I know. But I looked up the expression just for fun and ran across an article about “racist expressions in American English” and that was one of them. It can include poor cotton picking whites along with slaves, so that would seem to take the racist edge off of it a little.


63 posted on 09/17/2017 9:33:21 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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