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On Monday, people will wander the streets with stunned, confused looks, carrying tear-stained 1040s, trying to convince the waitress at Starbucks (who is 19, working there for "party money" and never missed a perm in her life) that the bathroom really is a home office, or that a teenager's hormonally crazed "split personality" really should qualify him as two children.
So, I knew that "Sold American" is a phrase associated with auctioneers. I still didn't know what it meant, so I Googled "Sold American" and "Auctioneer." Which led me to Lee Aubrey "Speed" Riggs, from right down the road in Goldsboro. According to the North Carolina Agricultural Hall of Fame Web site, "Speed" was known as "the Voice of Lucky Strike" for his cigarette ads, in which he would perform his typical lightning-fast auctioneer's chant, ending with the trademark phrase... "Sold American!"OK, I get "sold"... but why "American?" Ah. I had to get a little deeper into the [Google] results, but I finally found my answer. An article on virginiaplaces.org entitled "Tobacco in Virginia" tells us that tobacco auctioneers would end their chants by announcing which tobacco company had won each auction. Thus, "Sold American" would signify a sale to Durham's American Tobacco Company, makers of Lucky Strike cigarettes and employers of "Speed" Riggs.See the full content of this document
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"I'm not saying it's over."-DURHAM DISTRICT ATTORNEY MIKE NIFONG, AFTER DEFENSE ATTORNEYS FOR MEMBERS OF DUKE'S LACROSSE TEAM SAID NO FOREIGN DNA WAS FOUND ON A WOMAN WHO SAYS SHE WAS SEXUALLY ASSAULTED AT A LACROSSE TEAM PARTY. THE WOMAN, WHO IS AFRICAN AMERICAM, WAS HIRES AS A STRIPPER AT THE PART...See the full content of this document
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