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Originally Posted by BadNewsRef
True story. I was once told not to use the words hit and whack because they might be interpreted in a certain cultural way.
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In the early 2000s the State of Ohio was using money that it had received in a lawsuit to provide matching funds to build new schools. The Toledo Public School District's commitment was 30% of the cost of the buildings with the State putting up the other 70% which is a very good deal. TPS put a bond issue on the ballot to raise its share of the monies to replace all 69 schools in the district. I was on the committee that promoted the passage of the bond issue.
Every Friday morning the committee would meet and the district's superintendent would start the meeting with a recap of fund raising listing the different organizations that had donated money and how much they had donated. I would always conclude is report with the reminder that I had to take 15% back to the Mafia in Youngstown, to which everyone would laugh. After one meeting a woman who had never been to a meeting before admonished me for using the word Mafia because everyone knows that is no such thing,
. I calmly reminded the woman of my last name, that I was a native of Youngstown, and that the Mafia did indeed exist,
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MTD, Sr.