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Thread #39396 Message #560554
Posted By: Mark Cohen
28-Sep-01 - 04:52 AM
Thread Name: A new meaning for the word 'Harvested'
Subject: RE: A new meaning for the word 'Harvested'
Hollowfox, I know just what you mean: when I call a large local business, I get a recording that says, "All of our representatives are servicing other customers." It calls up all kinds of interesting pictures, not suitable for family viewing. Yet another example of language evolving before our eyes, and not always for the better. Like "reticent", which used to mean "taciturn", and now is coming to mean "reluctant", ever since somebody in the Department of Redundancy Department started using the phrase "reticent to speak".
But back to the topic at hand, the Hawaii County Police have an ongoing program in which helicopters fly over people's property looking for stands of pakalolo (cannabis), which are then confiscated or destroyed by officers on the ground. It's called "Operation Green Harvest".