Pearson's extensive plot summary (119-22) of the Left Hand of Darkness caused me to
go postal. She at once absolutely unnecessarily tells readers what ensues between Le Guin's protagonists and fails to make the needed connection between her discussion of "gender essentialism" (113) and Judith Butler's work on the subject.
Among his opinions, Bauer said that at one public meeting "no decent person could resist the urge to
go postal," described a fantasy funeral for one of the trustees in which other trustees and Mathur are also killed, and illustrated an article on downsizing with three people assembling a gun.
"What's so funny?" asked the publisher, incredulously, perhaps wary that I was, indeed, about to
go postal. "Oh, nothing," I said, still giggling.
Petersburg, Fla., didn't "
go postal" after being ordered to cut her inch-long fingernails.
|8 A postage stamp boasting the likeness of Queen's deceased lead singer Freddie Mercury--and approved by the queen--causes conservatives to
go postal in the United Kingdom.
Some people assume it is something I had in the past and that I am "better." Some worry that I might "
go postal," and they treat me with kid gloves.
In addition to Britain, many other countries, particularly those within the Commonwealth, will be anxious to issue their own stamps and with only three months to
go postal administrations, stamp designers and security printing firms are now working flat out to get the stamps out on time.
If I had to work with people like these, he concludes, I think I'd
go postal.
I had heard that when you get fired, you have to leave on the spot, lest you
go postal. I just felt badly for the pastry floater who would have to close on his own.
"We haven't had anybody
go postal up here in a long time," Hampton said.
The student's teachers had also expressed concern about his violent writings and his odd behavior in the classroom, and classmates reportedly joked he may "
go postal."
But you can
go postal and shoot your way through the entire affair as before.
But just because words like nimrod,
go postal and wannabe are now fair game, we doubt they'll turn up on your next vocab quiz.
Under fictitious bylines, his articles in 1998 included a suggestion that "a two-ton slate of polished granite" be dropped on the head of President Raghu Mathur, an urge to "
go postal" at a trustees' meeting, a fantasy description of a trustee's funeral and an illustration of Mathur beheading people on his "enemies list."