Word for the Day, Monday, February 1, 2010--slough

mark steyn column | 2/1/2010 | xs

[Zajko]

Yes, I remember reading that years ago at school. ‘Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough, it isn’t fit for humans now...’ - I always thought that just about summed Slough up :)

[secret garden]

From Mark Steyn:
In my book America Alone, I point out that, to a five-year old boy waving his flag as Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee procession marched down the Mall in 1897, it would have been inconceivable that by the time of his eightieth birthday the greatest empire the world had ever known would have shriveled to an economically moribund strike-bound socialist slough of despond, one in which (stop me if this sounds familiar) the government ran the hospitals, the automobile industry and much of the housing stock, and, partly as a consequence thereof, had permanent high unemployment and confiscatory tax rates that drove its best talents to seek refuge abroad.

[xsmommy]

that is horrifying! A+++

[xsmommy]

gorgeous! A+++

[xsmommy]

that’s IT!~ i even tried googling his columns and couldn’t find it.I never have time to read National Review from cover to cover before the next issue comes so i am always reading several issues at the same time and could not recall which it was in. Thanks!

[east1234]

I know the pronounciation as “slew”, not sure if thats correct or varies locally.