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Perhaps that is what happened with my unsuccessful proposal for a Multiple Entry Reconfigurable Dialogue Editor (“This project stinks”-- Referee A), or my Comprehensive Universal Labelled Database Enumerating System Architecture Concepts (“Will this work lead anywhere?”
I do think it stinks that newspapers own teams that their sports pages have to "cover," or that even the most distinguished papers hold conferences, seminars, and festivals that then tend to get "covered" more than events sponsored by others.
But even as I was saying, "Help, save me from the dinosaur," I was simultaneously thinking: How am I going to wrap up that column today, the kicker I have stinks; should I roast a chicken for dinner or not because it's not worth it unless I go get the good chicken and that's at a butcher store 20 minutes away, and if waste 40 minutes going to a butcher store, how many of those red shelves will I be able to paint today; did I forget to give Zoe that permission slip she needed this morning; is my skin starting to look old; do I hear the dog throwing up a sock in the kitchen; maybe I should just end the piece by referring back to the lead, but then I always do that so ...
--stinks.
"It stinks in God's nostrils, and I know it stinks in the law's nostrils, and it stinks to me."