From: mshaw@panix.com   
      
   Adam H. Kerman  wrote:   
   > David Carson  wrote:   
   > >Wed, 10 Sep 2025 11:43:14 -0700, Travoltron    
   wrote:   
      
   > >>Polly Holliday, a Sassy Waitress on the Sitcom Alice, Dies at 88   
      
   > >>Kiss my grits, her character, Flo, was known to say.   
      
   > >It's one of those things that a TV writer who has never spoken to a   
   > >Southerner in real life would imagine a Southerner might say.   
      
   > I've never met anyone, let alone a Southerner, who speaks in catch   
   > phrases. This goes back to old-time radio, if not the ancient Greeks.   
      
   Oh, I have. I know a native Tennessean who punctuates conversation with   
   "word!" every time something agreeable to him is uttered.   
      
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   Mark Shaw                                        moc TOD liamg TA wahsnm   
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