BBC: Stiffing: Deceived and confused. The BBC elucidates the American “folksy idiom” behind President Bush’s recent utterance, and can’t resist pointing out that stiff “already has a number of slang definitions. The word can be used to mean a corpse, an erection, a dull person and to describe a strong alcoholic drink.” I will leave out the obvious, though salicious, comment about which of these applies to the warbloggers and their baying for Saddam’s blood.
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Day: September 5, 2002
Patriot Day
President Bush has asked that the US remember September 11 as Patriot Day in memory of those killed in the terrorist attack in 2001. Sounds good, but I wonder what Massachussetts will do.
I had almost forgotten when I saw this come up recently in the press that the day had been designated as Patriot Day last December. I’ll be observing the day by singing the Mozart Requiem with the Cascadian Chorale.
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