The Dude Come Up Dead

My friend John was doing this labor arbitration. Management fired the employee because he had been charged with murder. The union took the position they couldn’t fire him until he was convicted. John was working to understand the facts. Apparently there had been a party, and a fight, and there were questions about who hit who.

“Now please narrate the facts as to how the killing took place,” directed John.

“I don’t know,” said the employee, “the dude come up dead."

Or in the immortal words of Ron Ziegler,* “mistakes were made.”**

*"We would all have to say that mistakes were made in terms of comments."--Nixon Press Secretary Ron Ziegler.

**"I acknowledge that mistakes were made here."--Bush Factotem Alberto Gonzalez.