Maniac cop wields schoolbus, blue gun!

[Teh Kenosha Echidna]

Beable van Polasm wrote:

> man...@world.std.com (Joe Manfre) writes:
>
> > Just ran across this highly intriguing article about a police
> > lieutenant in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, who doesn't appear to be
> > playing with both bats loose in his water, if you know what I mean:
> >
> > http://www.tennessean.com/local/archives/03/02/28556990.shtml
> >
> > I nominate Beable van Polasm and John Burrage to work on line-by-line
> > deconstructions of the meaning of this article, because both of them
> > are on the other side of the world from Murfreesboro and thus are
> > aloof and distant from the cop and his liquor breath.
>
> Well okay, but I'm only going to "deconstruct" one line:
>
> -> About 7:30 a.m. ''dispatch came on the radio and said, 'We need two
> -> officers at (the police department) '10-18'. And '10-18' means
> -> 'Hurry up!' or 'Quick!'
>
> SYLLABLE COUNT!!!
>
> "Quick!" <== one syllable
> "10-18" <== three syllables
>
> JUST SAY "QUICK" YOU BOZOS!

"LY"