[Ads-l] ADS-L Digest - 5 Feb 2018 to 6 Feb 2018 (#2018-36)

[Shawnee Moon]

> Subject: Re: Heard on Forensic files:

>>> "She was lying on her back, when she was stabbed, _in the prone position_."
>>> 
>>> He meant to say, "in the _supine_ position," of course.
>>> 
> 
>> Of course. But who else knows that?

> 
> Now, now; you guys are overly supine to generalizations.
**

They are prone to that. ;-)
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