Some of the papers are chiding the Clarion-Ledger for plagiarism. That is nothing new, but these papers are a long time finding it out. The Clarion-Ledger would purloin a whole chapter from the bible if it thought it could palm it off on the public as original.
We refuse to dignify the scathing attack printed in yesterday’s Hattiesburg Daily Progress with a response. All we shall say on the matter is, we don’t know you from a bar of soap.
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“Bar of soap” is so much more polite than my usual “…hatful of [sphincters]”. I will have to adopt your more PC version.
😂 And I’m adding your version to my vocabulary for the people who REALLY get on my nerves!
Oh dear. What have I done? 😱