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Laura Ellis, "Why Go There? A Linguist Dissects Jim Gray’s ‘Wild-Ass’ Zinger", WFPL 11/1/2016:
Kentucky U.S. Senator Rand Paul and his opponent, Lexington Mayor Jim Gray squared off Tuesday night in their only face-to-face debate of the election season. For an hour, they talked about the future of coal, Kentucky’s heroin problem, and more.
But it was one particular turn of phrase, used by Gray, that caught people’s ears. It includes a word for the human posterior.
What Jim Gray said:
He wants us to believe
that his wild-assed theories and philosophies
are the remedies for everything
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