[Ads-l] New York's Boldest

[Margaret Lee]

How about New York's Baddest  ('bad' meaning 'good') to describe all of (or the majority of)  NY's municipal workers?  
-Margaret Lee
 
      From: Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
 To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU 
 Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2015 2:30 PM
 Subject: Re: New York's Boldest
   
On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 1:06 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I now see that an official sign in front of the city prison complex on
> Rikers Island reads:
>
>          CITY OF NEW YORK
> CORRECTION DEPARTMENT
>            RIKERS ISLAND
> HOME OF NEW YORK'S BOLDEST
>
> Presumably that means the officers.
>


I saw that, too. It's left me wondering it means for a prison-guard to be
the "boldest" of NYC's civil servants.

With any luck, I'll never find out.


-- 
-Wilson
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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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