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beskeptigal
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Posted - 01/17/2006 :  02:23:14  Show Profile Send beskeptigal a Private Message
News headline that I cannot figure out what they mean by "Pol assails White House..." It isn't repeated in the article and nothing I can find on Google fits. Does anyone know what Pol refers to here?
Edited by - beskeptigal on 01/17/2006 02:23:54

HalfMooner
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Posted - 01/17/2006 :  02:33:25   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send HalfMooner a Private Message
It's just an abbreviation that means "politician," in that context.
“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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beskeptigal
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Posted - 01/18/2006 :  01:06:49   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send beskeptigal a Private Message
Thanks. Boy it's hard to figure they were referring to Murtha until you point it out.
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HalfMooner
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Posted - 01/18/2006 :  01:25:02   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send HalfMooner a Private Message
Indeed. I think that dumb abbreviation was probably originally invented by a headline composer at a newspaper.

Semi-apropos: I recall my father telling me the old (Ogden Nash?) ditty, in which a wastrel son at college sends a telegram home, asking for more money. (The historical context is, the telegram company charged the sender on a per-word basis.)

The collegian sent:

NO MON
NO FUN
YOUR SON

The reply:

TOO BAD
SO SAD
YOUR DAD
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Snake
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Posted - 01/18/2006 :  01:25:17   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Snake's Homepage  Send Snake an ICQ Message  Send Snake a Yahoo! Message Send Snake a Private Message
quote:
Originally posted by beskeptigal

Thanks. Boy it's hard to figure they were referring to Murtha until you point it out.

That's exactly why I don't read or listen to the regular news anymore. It's like trying to understand a forigen language that you never heard before.
Do they really want people to be Informed?
Something to wonder about.
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