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Old July 5th, 2005 #18
Ossian
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As a real smart fellow said, "The beginning of intelligence is in calling things by their right names."

That's a good list of Derrick's, but omitted was a niggerism which has long been part of my family's vocabulary: nigger-rig, which is of course to do a thing in an unworkmanlike, slip-shod, half-assed, incompetent, and/or worthless manner.
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