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> >Ex alcoholic "draft dodger" mass murderer US former leader George W
> >Bush is hanged for crimes against humanity at a secure facility.
>
> I think you need some hyphens, Philip.
I don't think you can fix it just with punctuation. My best attempt
is, "The ex-alcoholic, draft dodger, mass murderer, and former US
leader George W. Bush is..." The comma after "murderer" is, I
grudgingly admit, optional.
Another possibility: "The ex-alcoholic, draft dodging, mass-murdering
former U.S. leader, George W. Bush, is..."
But this is the "Jew bastard" problem. Some people engaging in
invective just stack up noun phrases. (They also confuse praise, such
as "ex-alcoholic", with invective.)

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Jeffrey Turner - 31 Dec 2006 20:00 GMT
>>>Ex alcoholic "draft dodger" mass murderer US former leader George W
>>>Bush is hanged for crimes against humanity at a secure facility.
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> is, "The ex-alcoholic, draft dodger, mass murderer, and former US
> leader George W. Bush is..."
"...hanged, at a secure facility, for crimes against humanity."
--Jeff
> The comma after "murderer" is, I
> grudgingly admit, optional.
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> invective just stack up noun phrases. (They also confuse praise, such
> as "ex-alcoholic", with invective.)

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"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already
earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake,
since for him, the spinal cord would fully suffice."
--Albert Einstein
Mike Lyle - 31 Dec 2006 20:37 GMT
> >>>Ex alcoholic "draft dodger" mass murderer US former leader George W
> >>>Bush is hanged for crimes against humanity at a secure facility.
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>
> "...hanged, at a secure facility, for crimes against humanity."
I don't know: ". . . a secure facility for crimes against humanity"
could work.

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Jeffrey Turner - 03 Jan 2007 00:14 GMT
>>>>>Ex alcoholic "draft dodger" mass murderer US former leader George W
>>>>>Bush is hanged for crimes against humanity at a secure facility.
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> I don't know: ". . . a secure facility for crimes against humanity"
> could work.
You mean a facility built for committing crimes against humanity without
any interference?
--Jeff

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The shepherd always tries to persuade
the sheep that their interests and
his own are the same. --Stendhal
Mike Lyle - 03 Jan 2007 13:39 GMT
[...]
> >>"...hanged, at a secure facility, for crimes against humanity."
> >
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> You mean a facility built for committing crimes against humanity without
> any interference?
Yes.

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