Man, it must be hard to work on your tan when you’re hiding in a cave and all. Probably makes your beard a bit whiter, too.

And in the category of “Things seemed to change after 9/11, but they really didn’t”: a headline on the front page of today’s paper — about a guy who applied for a loan through new city program — reads: “He’s not just a potential sub shop owner, he’s a hero.” Whatever happened to all that talk about how we’d only call “real” heroes heroes? (In the online edition, the headline’s been changed to read “he’s their hero” — maybe others noticed, too.

27 December 2001



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27 December | 13:37  |  Leia

Am I the only one who sees the irony in calling a sub shop owner a hero? Hero ... sub sandwich ...?



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