"Don't you 'little lady' me, I said. "I break horses. I brand steers. I run a ranch with a couple dozen crazy cowboys on it, and I can beat them all in poker. I'll be damned if some nincompoop is going to stand there and tell me that I don't have what it takes to fly that dinky heap of tin."
As spoken by a civilized (believe it or not!) Lily Casey Smith from "Half Broke Horses" by Jeannette Walls. Question of the Day: Why don't we ever hear the word "nincompoop" anymore?
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