• @marx2k
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    53 months ago

    He was nicknamed Bum because he fetched the firefighters’ coffee and shined their shoes, and at 10 he first snuck onto a fire truck that was answering a call.

    I don’t get it

    • PlumOPM
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      93 months ago

      Just a wet fart of a sentence.

      Here’s the same paragraph from a mental floss article:

      “He used to hang around the old No. 1 fire department on Greene Street all the time and the firemen started calling him ‘the little bum,’” one friend told The Miami Herald in 1976. “He was always bumming things—asking for favors, like little kids do.”

      • @marx2k
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        73 months ago

        That makes a lot more sense, thank you