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[rich]

a couple of characters on the Sopranos use the term believe it or not
recently

and a very much Lot 49 type endsing to the series to boot
rich


On 6/13/07, Ray Easton <kraimie at kraimie.net> wrote:
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>
> On Wednesday, Jun 13, 2007, at 10:21 US/Central, David Morris wrote:
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> > "First couple, three" is just another example of Pynchon's
> > Californiesqe (Valley?) phrasings  's what it is.
>
> As a child in the Bluegrass region of Kentucky, I heard the phrase "a
> couple, three" all the time, employed by family a couple-three
> generations before me.   (I've not heard it since, until AtD.)
>
> Ray
>
>
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