Word: figgered
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...figger mah time is best spent tendin’ mah hogs. I ain’t got no time to pose fo’ no big-city pho-toe-graph. [Spits derisively...
Anyway I got 5 hours to kill, so I figure I could read da article and have my roommate explain the parts to me I couldn't figger out. I read it right, but theirs a lot of big words and it was just too long for me and too boring, so I just went to sleep...
...Hollywood, California. Seems they went there to make a motion picture and wound up gettin' their grits fried by a Florida boy name of Burt Reynolds and that lil ole big ole gal from Tennessee Dolly Parton. Leastways that's how they tell it. I figger it another way: If you plan to go to Hollywood you better be ready to Go Hollywood. But you decide for yer own self...
...matter who dey is, Nat, good or bad, even ol' Marse Joe, dey white folks day gwine make you feel black-assed. Never seed a white man smile at me befo'. How come dat 'plies, Nat? Figger a white man treat you right you gwine feel white-assed. Naw suh! Young Massah, old massah sweet-talk me, I jes' feel black-assed th'ough and th'ough. Figger when I gets to heaven like you say I is, do good Lord hisself even He gwine make old Hark feel black-assed, standin' befo' de golden throne. Dere He is, white...
...even clinkers are fun to people who are there as participants, friends and relatives. Moreover, concerts give a town an item of civic pride. "It's a true gathering of the real family life of America," says one mother, who might be quoting The Music Man line: "Gotta figger out a way t'keep the young ones moral after school!" The old find charm in the band-concert tradition and the young often find delight. "It's old enough to be new," says a middle-aged man, and a teen-ager adds...