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Re: Countdown to $200 oil (3) - no gas tax needed (none / 0)

What is "jes' folk"?

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Tue May 6th, 2008 at 08:42:40 AM EST
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Re: Countdown to $200 oil (3) - no gas tax needed (none / 1)

= just folk

ie ordinary people as compared to presumed elitists.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Tue May 6th, 2008 at 08:48:59 AM EST
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Yep. (none / 1)

"They's jes' folk."

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Tue May 6th, 2008 at 09:03:13 AM EST
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Re: Yep. (none / 1)

Frat boy millionaires and billionaires, mostly.

The kind of people you'd want to have a beer with, because you understand each other and want the same things.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Wed May 7th, 2008 at 07:39:56 AM EST
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Re: Yep. (none / 0)

And "jes' folk" only applies to white people who live in the middle of nowhere, of course. As Chris Matthews told us, Latinos/as and blacks aren't "real people".

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Wed May 7th, 2008 at 09:40:06 AM EST
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