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From: Eric Takabayashi <etakajp@yahoo.co.jp>
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Subject: Re: Debito says "I want my country back"!
Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 00:09:51 +0900
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Rykk wrote:

> The way I usually hear it is "Don't get bent out of shape over it."  Never
> just "Get bent" by itself.

If so many Americans haven't heard it, then it must be a generational thing,
because it is not uncommon among the young, like people in their 20s.