[Ads-l] WOTY? "berm"

[Jonathan Lighter]

I saw no mound. I saw a fairly level strip of dirt and grass behind a
walkway formed by concrete barriers.

He just walked across the grass.

Maybe nowadays some people call a grassy divider or perimeter a "berm."

JL

On Sun, May 1, 2016 at 12:39 PM, James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
wrote:

> On  Sat, 30 Apr 2016 21:43:48 Zone+0000 Joel Berson <berson at ATT.NET>
> wrote:
>
> <quote>
> Said and seen during an ABC-affiliate news broadcast, although I don't
> see it in "print" (online):  To reach the venue for his Friday address
> in California (to a Republican Party meeting?), Trump had to detour due
> to a demonstration and climb up a "berm", as the announcer called it.
> <end quote>
>
> When I was in Basic Training at Fort Knox (summer of 1969), the dirt wall
> on each side of a rifle range was called a "berm" (and I seem to recall
> someone making a pun about "Berm-a Road").  I can't recall having heard the
> word "berm" since then.
>
> Trump is 69.  It's a little hard imagining someone that age scaling a
> concrete wall, but climbing over a dirt mound should not have been a
> problem,so I don't see anything remark-able about that news broadcast.  It
> is quite easy to to throw insults at Adolph Trump without trying to work in
> his fantastic border wall.
>
> - Jim Landau
>
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