Word: cretini
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Things were going perfectly well until Lamont became infected, some time around the beginning of reading period, with that annoying bacterium--genus Garrulous Cretini. The biology of these bugs is unique: they distort what they see into what they want...
...last couple of weeks I prepared my revenge. Quietly, I worked at my carrel, plotting and awaiting an opportunity to pounce. Finally, a Garrulous Cretini came along. I don't quite remember what happened next, but they tell me he required numerous stitches to connect his lips back to his face as a result of the thousands of staples I planted on his mouth...
...guides the boat across Lake Charles, Captain Cretini, a powerful man, as thick in the thighs as some simps are in the chest, gives freely of his Louisiana past. Born less than five miles from where he lives today with his wife, a school teacher, and two children. Army service, 1965 to 1968. Flight school on the G.I. Bill. Joined the San Antonio police department and stayed four years. Missed home. "It's mostly the people here. It's more relaxed." Took a job as a longshoreman on the dock at Lake Charles. Then the work, much of it loading...
...chance, but it is not, and anyway, shrimpers, like hawks, do not share. Thus feelings are bitter within the fleet, and the bitterness is exacerbated by a parochial rivalry between the shrimpers from Cameron, the port town nearest the Firing Line, and the shrimpers from the lakes, like Captain Cretini...
...Eddie rants, and Richard Cretini catches up along toward midnight and lets down his nets, but no one is hauling in anything to speak of. By first light not a boat is left in the channel. There had been cruel words on the radio all night -- all summer, for that matter -- but no violence...