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To: lentulusgracchus

I first heard it on the job in early seventies in Harlem.

92 posted on 09/08/2006 2:10:11 PM PDT by wtc911 (You can't get there from here)

To: wtc911

Ellison wrote Invisible Man in the 40's, iirc, and that chestnut had been around for a couple of generations at that point.

93 posted on 09/09/2006 3:28:49 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)

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