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YUM!  Thanks!!!
Arianne Laidlaaw

On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 4:30 AM, Kevin Mac Donnell <
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> A translation:
>
> I’m sad that Dick Gregory is gone and want to honor him in this Forum for
> having said one of the best things anyone has ever said about Mark Twain:
>
> Twain, Gregory wrote,   "was so far ahead of his time that he shouldn’t
> even
> be talked about on the same day as other people….”   (Callus on My Soul: A
> Memoir, 2001, p. 256)
>
> I LOVE THAT.  Rest in Peace, Dick Gregory.
>
> Shelley Fisher Fishkin
>
> I'll add a joke that Gregory told:
>
> Gregory walked into a café and sat down. "We don't serve colored people"
> warned the waitress. "Well, I don't eat colored people" replied Gregory.
> "Please bring me some fried chicken."
>
> The fried chicken came, but some local boys stepped over to Gregory's table
> and threatened "Boy, we're gonna do to you what you do to that chicken."
> Gregory picked up the chicken and gave it a big kiss.
>
> Kevin
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