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mr_lebowski

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2. It's one of the 'more believable' excuses, I suppose ...

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Tue Nov 13, 2018, 03:30 AM

Nov 2018

I mean, it's not IMPOSSIBLE that her story is truthful, and it wasn't meant to connote ... what one might assume it connotes.

No matter what though ... at best ... it's seems like a pretty darn odd turn of phrase.

But then, maybe I'm just not up on my old-timey (but totally non-racist) Southern colloquialisms ...

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