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#1 2016-04-23 04:59:46

Dixon Wragg
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From: Cotati, California
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"sudden" for "southern"?

BEYONCE: you could tell she has that sudden hospitality
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This reminds me of a fried chicken joint a Jamaican friend of mine once told me about on the island advertising “sudden fried chicken.”
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As a wrapping up to our trip, we went for a sudden fried chicken hunt during dinner time. It was KFC, then Jollibee, then feeling completely disgusted with too much fried food that we wound down at the nearest Starbucks.
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#2 2016-04-23 15:43:32

DavidTuggy
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Re: "sudden" for "southern"?

The air smelled of wet wool and incense and sodden fried chicken. Geek jumped to his feet, rocking the Winnebago.

There are several of these, but they are probably all purposeful.


*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .

(Possible Corollary: it is, and we are .)

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