North and south for humans and game

[Jonathan Lighter]

Newspersons have been saying similar things for several years, often in
regard to numbers: "The population of Mars is now north of 350, but of
Venus, south of 107."

Far more colorful than "more" or less" or "higher" or "lower."

It makes you want to hear more news.

JL


On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 9:37 PM, W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:

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> WB:  Business only goes south. Because stock markets run by Yankees?
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