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A what?
No, I'm thinking Mr. B meant "anal", as in "anal retentive", as in "uptight, rigid". Which is what these rules, and rulings, are. Why use critical thinking and make decisions when we can invoke "zero tolerance" rules and not think at all? Brilliant example, particularly in an educational setting.
Yeah, you're right. Anal, the short form of anal-retentive, which is referenced down in the blog.
"Anal-retentive" is just too much to squeeze into a headline.
--Bullard
Anal?
Anal? Don't you mean anile, as in the female equivalent of senile....which the editors must be to have let this one get past them. No wonder the News has become a joke around here!
"Anile" could work. But I like "anal," as in this dictionary definition: "A collection of very irritating personality traits that include stubbornness, orderliness, and a desire to control others and their surroundings."
Is that Bigred1 as in the Army's famed infantry division?
--B.
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