a) Horrendous story.KK #181
"We have a policy!" G&B #181
The term is not in common usage: (so I can't spell-check it)"... it did accomplish one thing - it made me want to read more - more about this subject that apparently upset her so much." S2
Have to admit that the first time I saw that I was in my late 30's. In Manhattan on business - flew in the night before and walking to the office kept seeing businessmen in suits with black crosses on their foreheads. No idea what it meant but when I got to the office I had to ask one of my colleagues.One day at beginning of class I noticed the teacher had dirt on her forehead. Don't recall the details, but probably called it to her attention.
If roles were reversed I'd have washed it off. She didn't. It was Ash Wednesday.
You're such a smoothie !"No idea what it meant but when I got to the office I had to ask one of my colleagues." #185
#186
Obviously Steve."...especially in a society which has been built on the ideas of free choice and free thought." King #188
"To attempt to silence a man is to pay him homage, for it is an acknowledgment that his arguments are both impossible to answer and impossible to ignore." John "The Birdman" Bryant
"The reason men are silenced is not because they speak falsely, but because they speak the truth.
This is because if men speak falsehoods, their own words can be used against them; while if they speak truly, there is nothing which can be used against them --except force." John "The Birdman" Bryant
United States Constitution -
B.O. R. ARTICLE #1: Ratified December 15, 1791
Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of ... the press ...