Heard on NFL Blackhawks vs. Redwings

[Seán Fitzpatrick]

<<Clear proof that modern usage is not limited to the literary effete.>>

Au contraire, mon ami!  I can't think of anyone more effete in the literary
way than that drill sergeant.  http://snurl.com/tx2kz
effete –adjective
...
3.      unable to produce; sterile.

Sean Fitzpatrick
Mais où sont les neige d'antan?
Sous les neige d'aujourd'hui.  http://snurl.com/tx2n1
http://www.logomachon.blogspot.com/


-----Original Message-----
From: Joel S. Berson [mailto:Berson at ATT.NET]
Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 10:17 AM
Subject: Re: Heard on NFL Blackhawks vs. Redwings

At 12/29/2009 12:19 AM, Seán Fitzpatrick wrote:
>FWIW, in 1966 at Ft. Bragg, our bayonet instructor informed us that there
>are only two kinds of bayonet fighters:  the quick and the dead.

Clear proof that modern usage is not limited to the literary effete.

Joel

>I retained
>sufficient presence of mind first to realize that he was not making a pun,
>and second not to raise my hand and say "Well, duh!"
>
>Seán Fitzpatrick
>Help the ontologically challenged realize their potential
>http://www.logomachon.blogspot.com/

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