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...majority of the college students, alumni, and parents lining the banks and bridges of the Charles River, the race was an excuse to get out and have a good time. As a tee-shirt sported by one spectator said, "Ya Gotta Regatta...
...first-person pronoun I is a basic starting point: ego, je, ich, io, ya. In Japanese, where nothing is that simple, the word has two dozen or more forms, depending on who is talking, and to whom, and the social relationship between them. An elderly man might refer to himself as washi, but his wife would say watashi, or, for that matter, atakushi, or atashi; their daughter might say atai and their son boku. Then there is temae, which means both you and I. But the Japanese often evade these social difficulties by dropping all pronouns entirely...
Michael "Spaceman" Jonzun, who is probably the Space Cowboy, boasts "I'm bad I can do it better than you What ya gonna do?" You also get a healthy dose of call-and response chants and a few cowboy yodels...
...child's deg-re-day. Does he look like a glassy-eyed zombie? Are her little fingers forever twitching? Are those lunch-money quarters disappearing into the black hole of pleasure? Does he tell you he's going to zap you right into hyperspace? If so, friends, ya got trouble, right here in River City. Trouble with a capital T, and that rhymes with V, and that stands for video games...
...ever seen a live comedy act before, it was probably a standup act before a big concert or at a place like "Catch a Rising Star" in New York and the comic was the kind of guy who walks around the stage and insults the audience ("Hey, will ya look at this guy? Where'd ya get that tie?") until they are forced to laugh...