faced with a problem mixed with bomb dropping?

[Doug Harris]

OT: I often wonder who young female cell-phoniacs are talking _to_ -- since none I see ever seem to be _listening_.
dh



>At 3:30 PM -0500 12/8/08, Michael Covarrubias wrote:
>>loud girl into her cellphone complaining about a problem in her sorority
>>house:
>>
>>"...So that's the bomb I've been dropped with."
>>
>Well, it's not easy to combine relativization with adversative
>passive; she was doing the best she could (especially since she was
>distracted by a loud cellphone user, even if it was herself).

>LH

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