Re: lets get to the meat of it



THO wrote:
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We can't bust heads like we used to, but we have our ways...

One trick is to tell 'em stories that don't go anywhere - like the time
I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my
shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called
Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the
style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those
days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. "Give me five bees for
a quarter," you'd say.

Now where were we? Oh yeah - the important thing was I had an onion on
my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have white onions
because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow
ones...

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