It’s not often I wake up to a story about Long Beach, MS on the front page of the New York Times. (link).
Of course, it would be a story like this:
Stores are not reopening in part because they cannot get insurance, he said; just three gap-toothed blocks remain of the commercial strip that was once at least twice as long, running from the railroad tracks down to the beach.
I like the map though, that could come in handy.
Thank God they didn’t violate the federal law requiring the use of the word ‘gap-toothed’ in any story using the word ‘Mississippi.’ Thank God for that.
Yep. At first I thought it was going to say “just three gap-toothed blockheads remain.”
Right. I would’ve resented that.
I mean, since only 3 of us were left, you’d think they could’ve interviewed me so’s I could say ‘hi’ to my maw-maw.
Isn’t it fun to kick the cute little rednecks when they’re down? It makes me feel so superior!
Postscript:
arcturus actually contacted Leslie Eaton to find out if “gap-toothed blocks” was some sort of comment on the slack-jawed locals. We have been assured no such coded insult was intended.
Now that I think about it, my home town *does* have a certain Alfred E. Neuman quality about it.