ext_17191 ([identity profile] wordplay.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] wordplay 2006-11-10 04:13 am (UTC)

Just gotta be free, white, and twenty-one. -- No, you don't have to be white anymore, I guess.

OK, hee. I don't know, for me this one is pretty racially loaded, but your point is taken about how tightly idiomatically bound it seems to be, at least for that one speaker.

And I don't know, Fox - do you think the non-ironic is still broadly available? I don't think I've EVER heard it used without irony.

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