Out of the ordinary:

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Thu Jul 12 18:58:38 UTC 2012


In the ICU on a medical-reality show, one of the doctors is having a
problem finding a neurosurgeon. The narrator speaks:

"Finally, Dr. Cardullo _captures_ a break."


_Catch_, like _get_ before it, has simply become too banal, I reckon.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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