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Jul 15, 2009
00:34
News & Politics
"You have lots of 'splaining to do"... it's reminiscent of what Ricky Ricardo would say to his wife Lucy on the old "I love Lucy" shows. So the phra...
"You have lots of 'splaining to do"... it's reminiscent of what Ricky Ricardo would say to his wife Lucy on the old "I love Lucy" shows. So the phrase carries some ethnic baggage. Senator Tom Corburn (R-Oklahoma) used the phrase when responding to Judge Sonia Sotomayor's explanation about gun laws. She was talking about how different state's laws on guns vary.
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