[Ads-l] intrusive "x"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Explicable but unpronounceable:


"During the first wave, 5 x Tu-160 Blackjack, 6 x Tu-95MS Bear and 14 x
Tu-22M3 Backfire bombers flew round trip missions from airbases in Russia."


If too many numbers were the problem, why not just spell 'em out? It ain't
a newspaper ad.


JL

-- 
"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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