[Ads-l] Heard on Forensic files:

[Wilson Gray]

"She was lying on her back, when she was stabbed, _in the prone position_."

He meant to say, "in the _supine_ position," of course.
-- 
-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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