"The poor guy was _pumped with four bullets_."

[Wilson Gray]

What's that, now? Used by a cop in a straight-to-cable movie to
describe a man who had been shot to death. Sounds kinda strange to me:
"pumped with four bullets." Why not "shot four times" or something
else equally banal? Of course, the writer of the screenplay had
"sounding different" as his attention.

Youneverknow.

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-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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