[Ads-l] suspect, adj. (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Jonathan Lighter]

So I suspect.

JL

On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 11:39 AM, Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
<william.d.mullins18.civ at mail.mil> wrote:
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> I suppose you are right.  But it's a great quote from a great scene.
>
>>
>> Sounds like the traditional "suspect" to me. i.e., "under suspicion."
>>
>> JL
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 10:42 AM, Mullins, Bill CIV (US) <william.d.mullins18.civ at mail.mil> wrote:
>> >
>> > Good Will Hunting (1997).  Chuckie (Ben Affleck) is impersonating Will (Matt Damon) in an interview, and is trying to get cash money from
>> the interviewers.  They are reluctant.
>> >
>> > "Let me tell you something.  You're suspect!  Yeah, you! I don't know what your reputation is in this town, but after the shit you tried to
>> pull today you can bet I'll be looking into you. Now the business we have, heretofore, you can speak with my aforementioned attorney.
>> Good day, gentlemen; and until that day comes, keep your ear to the grindstone."
>> >
>> > https://youtu.be/-JBvfZTx-vs?t=47
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >>
>> >> "Feeling suspicion; suspicious."
>> >>
>> >> Retired general on CNN:
>> >>
>> >> "I was suspect then, and I continue to be suspect."
>> >>
>> >> JL
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
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