A talking head on the evening news reported a subject who was “shot in the robbery.”
I’ll admit that it has been a few years since I worked in the Emergency Room, and as such, I consulted Gray’s Anatomy and found no listing for ‘robbery.’
Given that I may have missed this evolutionary step, I’m forced to wonder how many ‘robberies’ are present at birth. Should my left (or upper?) robbery become ruptured and/or infected, can I continue with only one remaining?
If reduced in size owing to a pituitary condition, does my robbery become a petty theft?
Viewing the converse, should a hyperactive kleptothyroid gland affect my robbery, does it metastasize into grand larceny?
Could this have been an allusion to breast feeding, in that robberies are a pseudonym for breasts? I’m thinking of Joni Mitchell and her song* Raised on Robbery*.
“It’s a lie. He didn’t get anywhere near my robberies.”
Now, perhaps your Gray’s can clear something else up for me. I read, in a history of the Civil War, that Stonewall Jackson was shot “in the thick of the fray”. Is that above or below the neck?
As an artist, I’m inclined to say that I’m often either inclined to drop my drawers, or to draw, but neither at the same time.
If someone were going to drop their drawers so I could draw them, I’d do it in charcoal, as you wouldn’t want someone with dropped drawers to be pastel like a parcel full of Easter eggs.