Winning almost all the time has a lot to be said for it, but not quite winning, barely missing again and again, keeps you whining and breathing, and might even be more fun in the end.
Prayers were said for the missing 18-year-old in local church services on Sunday morning.
Then the press and the police began to take seriously what we'd been saying for three days, and a missing divinity student who'd been slumming it downtown when he vanished became news.
"But my wife's been great, she's said 'you've missed it for 20 years, off you go back to the range'".
But only subsequently was General Somkid charged, over the disappearance of a Saudi businessman, who was said to have been hunting for the missing jewels, back in 1990.
In 2005 the New Scientist reported an amusing literature-related example of someone uttering a malapropism in place of the word "malapropism" itself: an office worker had described a colleague as "a vast suppository of information" (instead of "repository"), and, upon learning his mistake, the worker is said to have apologized for his "Miss-Marple-ism" (instead of "malapropism").
The same wouldn't be true, he says, for Miss Saigon: "It's not a famous novel, it's American soldiers invading a socialist country and after that a girl in a socialist country wanting to send her son to America and even killing herself.
A lot of people were saying that they felt "sorry" for me for missing out on all these experiences that I didn't have because I was sitting on the sidelines.
Include one larger piece of paper or a small card saying you're sorry for missing his or her birthday.
And it wasn't just a loss: it was Mississippi's ugliest loss in a decade or more, and that's saying something — Ed Orgeron coached in Oxford, Miss., for three years, remember.
