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[cbertsch]

The San Francisco Police spokesperson who had to discuss yesterday's tiger incident at the "Flesh Hacker" Zoo did a nice job of not going overboard in conjecturing what any of the facility's patrons who might have witnessed it would have felt: "I can only imagine the patrons walking around, and suddenly seeing this tiger," he said. "It was probably surreal." You never know these days what, precisely, is going to be perceived to be merely "real" and what will meet the standard of "surreal."

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Re: closure

[flw.livejournal.com]

I was employing the other cliche in these situations.

1) Not knowing is the worst thing.
2) Until you've been in my shoes, you can't know.

I hate these cliches. But it is not good form to hate someone whose children have just been eaten by tigers.

Re: closure

[cbertsch.livejournal.com]

A tiger that kid chose to provoke instead of visiting his mother for Christmas, mind you!