http://www.missionmission.org/2008/06/03/overheard-on-the-14l/ Saluting San Francisco's Mission District Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:23:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 http://www.missionmission.org/2008/06/03/overheard-on-the-14l/#comment-912 Skate-Punk Poetry Overheard Outside the Nice Lady Store « Mission Mission Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:27:13 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=373#comment-912 [...] Overheard on the 14X [...]

]]> http://www.missionmission.org/2008/06/03/overheard-on-the-14l/#comment-911 Allan Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:24:56 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=373#comment-911 i don’t think that kid was talking about having pull with his higher ups

]]> http://www.missionmission.org/2008/06/03/overheard-on-the-14l/#comment-910 Kunal Wed, 04 Jun 2008 03:09:07 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=373#comment-910 The term suction could mean something else:
Viewers of “The Wire” must master a whole argot, though it can take a while, because the words are never defined, just as they wouldn’t be by real people tossing them around. To have “suction” is to have pull with your higher-ups on the police force or in City Hall; a “redball” is a high-profile case with political consequences; to “re-up” is to get more drugs to sell. Drugs are branded with names taken from the latest news cycle: Pandemic, W.M.D., Greenhouse Gas. “The game” is the drug trade, although it emerges during the course of the show as a metaphor for the web of constraints that political and economic institutions impose on the people trapped within them. And, in one memorable neologism, a penis is referred to as a “Charles Dickens.”

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