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Originally Posted by ngcles
Hi Peter & All,
The one that makes me chuckle loudest is the word "evacuated" used in the media, frequently in the following way
"Fifteen people in Smithtown today were evacuated when a fire broke-out in ..."
No. No. No.
They weren't evacuated in Smithtown, they were evacuated from Smithtown -- unless of course there was a large industrial-strength sucking machine that was attached to the individuals in question, removing their inside-bits.
I bemoan the apparent disappearance of sub-editors.
Best,
L.
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Of course there is the line in Spike Milligan's "Rommel? ... Gunner who??" where the reader is told that 'captured German underpants revealed that they were evacuating all along the line'. I believe that is termed self-evacuation and it doesn't involve sucking.