* changing batteries on the lighted pen: DON'T BUY ANY MORE CHEAP ONES!
* the KING was in his counting house, counting out his money the Queen was in the Parlor, Eating Bread and Honey
* The ELDERS of the church were out pounding on people's doors in the COLD (winters, Sweltering SUMMERS, tornadoes, etc.) dark of night, facing MAD RESIDENTS; a few were on their computers, BUT PORN was ONLY A POP-UP!
* the Bishops were in their offices, asking pre-teens about sexual activities that they'd NEVER HEARD OF BEFORE...
Oh, yes. The bishops and their interviews. That’s where I first heard the term masturbation. I asked what that was. Um, found out it means ‘self stimulation’. Talk about awkward.
Thinking about it now, I wonder if some of those ‘men of god’ got off on making teenage girls squirm.
The reference to "The Swamp" made me recall how the lovely city of Washington, D.C. has been disparagingly referred to in certain quarters as "the swamp."
It is one of our loveliest cities. Like any major American city, it has its good parts and its bad parts, but the good parts are incomparable. There is so very much to see and do in the District. If a foreign visitor had only one American city to visit, Washington, D.C. would be by far my recommendation.
So for that reason, I would be more than happy to refer to the newly installed residents and workers as "swamp dwellers." :o)