VERY GRAPHIC IMAGERY

[Wilson Gray]

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On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:13 PM, David Barnhart
<dbarnhart at highlands.com> wrote:
> "Smart as a box of rocks".
>

"Maybe one judge in eight is crooked, ... political hacks about _as
smart as a box of rocks_."

Judge Brocton Lockwood
in
U.S. News & World Report, v.95. 1983.
--
-Wilson
–––
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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