Re: OT: What? the clean-shaven outnumber the bearded? "Yer Ugly Mug," etc.

In a message dated 2003:05:20 03:30:41 AM, andjo@FREE.FR writes:

>> In a message dated 2003:05:19 12:39:32 PM, andjo@FREE.FR writes:
>
>> >(I do assume you don't claim ownership of any
>> >personal enemies you might have!)
>
>>     Whilst growing up in Houston, Texas, a common phrase I heard was
>"I have dibs on ____" (blank = someone's name) and this usually meant a form
>> of possessive enemy-ship as well as some seriously harmful intentions
>> (usually a Texas-style "blood-grudge").
>
>À la "Don't touch NN - he's mine!"?
    Yepyep and a lil something more I think...

    With some help from my friends, I survived 9 of these damn things, but
when a very sick, twisted, corrupt police officer started yakking and acting
like I had something to do with his even more twisted (police-)partner's
assassination... my father observed that "the heat in Texas is not good for your
health - in more ways than one. Time for you to move back out to California."

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