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Not just you. I wonder who "did it".
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From this weeks Economist:
"Inside the rabbit hole of high-energy physics, objects disappear in bursts of energy, but leave traces hanging around like the suspended grins of Cheshire Cats."*
*note plural
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From the front page of todays New York Times "Some in Congress want America to choose between these goals, to think of the moment and not the future."  ~president bush (emphasis added)
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The night before last, shots were fired in the auditorium of a Bronx movie theater. The police responded by locking the doors so no one could escape.
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This from today's New York Times:
It's a minor miracle that Peter G. Verniero remembered to show up yesterday to testify about all that he had forgotten about his role in New Jersey's racial profiling debacle.
..Mr. Verniero exhibited signs of Post-Profiling Stress Syndrome, an affliction of New Jersey politicians that hampers the ability to confront the issue.
An informal survey conducted by Democratic legislative aides counted 158 "I don't recalls," 21 "I don't remembers" and 38 "don't knows." And those were the totals at the 5 p.m. break.
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My mom heard a report, probably NPR, related as true. A young man held up a bank teller at gunpoint. After she'd given him all the cash in the drawer he noticed a bottle of bourbon behind somewhere behind the counter [a self-evident etymology, there?] and demanded it. The teller told him she couldn't do that. When he insisted, she said she didn't think he was drinking age and asked for identification---which he provided…
This is Binky, wishing you a pleasant from the rings of Saturn, signing off.
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The islander offers: A young man held up a bank teller at gunpoint...noticed a bottle of bourbon
It was a convenience store. He had finished robbing the register and then the story is pretty much as inselpeter related. There was a companion story about the bank robber was trying to rob the BankAmerica. He had filled out the note on a BankAmerica deposit slip but the lines were too long so he went across the street to the Well Fargo Bank and tried to rob them. He handed the note to the Wells Fargo teller. She read it and deduced from the large number of misspellings that he was about a half dozen cans short of a six-pack so she told him she couldn't honor the note because it was written on a BankAmerica deposit slip; he would either have to redo the note on a Wells Fargo deposit slip or take the note he had given her across the street to the BankAmerica and rob them. He took the note back and, on his way out of the BankAmerica with the loot was stopped by the police that the Wells Fargo teller had called up after he left her bank.
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<<It was a convenience store.>>
You're right, of course, faldage. My mom couldn't answer when I asked her what a bottle of bourbon was doing in a bank.
Which puts me in mind of a Yiddish expression = a "bubbamaisa" is an old wives' tale; from bubba--grandmother and maisa--a story, I guess. You also say "l'maisa" when you're saying something's true; "Halacha l'maisa" means "practical law," more or less; and a "maisa" can also be a deed or act. thea, if you're out there...
"puts me in mind of" puts me in mind of wondering about the funny construction "puts me in mind of." Can anyone explain?
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"Bernardo had give the [heirloom lace] to me, extolling its worth, which began to exasperate me, for no matter how much the lace was worth, my intended should believe that I deserved more."
-- "Torn Lace and Other Stories," Emilia Pardo Bazan.
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<large number of misspellings … so she told him she couldn't honor the note>
Seems to me that somebody has been watching Woody Allen's first film (as director) "Take the money and run" (1969) where Woody tries to rob a bank by handing the teller a note which the teller reads as "I have a gub". It's a wonderfully funny sequence.
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Yes, paulb, that scene is hilarious! Thanks for the rebinder.
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