Friday, August 11, 2006

The divinity's very small sense of humor

In late 2003, the owners of Mount Misery Bed & Breakfast in St. Michaels, Md., decided it wouldn't be much use wooing would-be innkeepers, so they marketed it as a private home. It sold, for $1.5 million, to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. link (subscription)

2 Comments:

Blogger Juke said...

Well, not effusive. Not two-beers-down at the local micro. Not what you'd call entirely void of bitter irony. But not very small. Small, yeah okay. But not very small.

8/12/2006 5:04 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Right. bile beans on my part. makes me a bit hard on the big guy sometimes. still: smaller than just small. could we emend to wee?

8/12/2006 7:24 AM  

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