personnel, sing. PLUS dark sayings of the vox populi
Jonathan Lighter
wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Wed Mar 2 19:57:51 UTC 2011
CNN reports that "at least one American military personnel has been killed"
in a shooting at the Frankfurt airport. Not the first time I've encountered
this usage.
A few days CNN reported on the criminal case against Mayor Oscar Hernandez
of tiny Bell, Calif., the dedicated public servant who allegedly paid
himself $800,000 per annum - just a little more than his Chief of Police,
who was making considerably more than the less-than-100%-effective L.A.
Chief of Police
According to prosecutors, Hernandez had a little motto: "Pigs get fat. Hogs
get slaughtered." That allegedly means he thought of himself as only a nice
greedy pig, not a disgusting avaricious hog that should get what it
deserves.
In an unrelated development, one of the guests at a wedding a few days back
sidled up to me and said with a twinkle, "Marriage! The only game that
starts with two hearts and a diamond and ought to end with a club and a
spade!"
"Dark," I said. "Very dark."
JL
--
"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
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