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Thread #16554 Message #3923760
Posted By: Lighter
11-May-18 - 07:14 PM
Thread Name: Help: What is a bulgine?
Subject: RE: Help: What is a bulgine?
Minstrel show humor, from the Pittsfield {Mass.] Sun (June 1, 1854), p. 1:
"Sambo, why am a locomotive bulgine like a bed bug?" "I gib dat up, Mr. Dixon, 'fore you ax it." "Bekase it runs on sleepers."