Have you noticed that everything in the U.S. is BIG--The Big Easy, Big Sur, Battle of the Big Horn, Super Big Gulps, Big Bear Lake, Big trees that they call giants, Big Brother. It's a big country (though not the biggest), with big portions and big people, big deficit, big cars that drive on equally big freeways. Even former president Bill Clinton talked big, when he said: big things are expected of us , and nothing big ever came of being small.
It's a larger than life place, so it wasn't surprising when I heard about the very big 4,060 year sentence given to a child sex offender and recently upheld by a Texas Appeals Court (apparently Texas is a BIG state, though not the biggest). I was thinking maybe a 3,000 year sentence was reasonable, but a Texas jury was looking for something bigger. James Pope will not be eligible for parole until the year 3209. Now that's a lot of years spent in the Big House.
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Your point is valid, but as a history-knowin' America-appreciatin' guy, I'm sure you know it's the "Battle of the Little Bighorn". Moreover, "Big Brother" was concieved by George Orwell, an Englishman.
Here endeth the nitpicking. ;-)
I think I want a Big Mac now. Or maybe I'll go to Wendy's for some Biggie Fries.
- Geoff G.
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