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Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

A Lotta N-Bombs in Yer Old Literature

Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

Armstrong & Getty

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4.8816 Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

We ponder the matter of how to handle the challenging language within Mark Twain's classics!  

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0:00.0

A lot of end bombs in your old literature.

0:02.0

It's one more thing.

0:04.0

Armstrong and Getty.

0:05.2

One more thing.

0:08.8

Is this going to end our career?

0:10.6

No, I'm going to skip him.

0:12.0

Asking for a friend.

0:13.0

I'm going to skip the M-bombs just like I skipped him last night reading to Henry in bed

0:16.5

as I was reading Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain.

0:21.1

And I'm going to pick up where he first runs into the character, Huckleberry Finn,

0:25.7

who will go on to have his own book about him.

0:28.4

So he's walking down the street there in his little town.

0:32.7

A modern day warrior, mean, mean pride.

0:35.1

Tom Sawyer, yes, exactly.

0:36.6

Hello, Huckleberry. Hello yourself and see how you like it. What's that Sawyer, yes exactly. Hello, Huckleberry.

0:37.7

Hello yourself and see how you like it.

0:40.0

What's that you got?

0:40.9

Dead cat.

0:42.1

Let me see him, Huck.

0:43.4

My, he's pretty stiff.

0:44.4

Where'd you get him?

0:45.5

Bought him off a boy.

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