My back's giving me gyp.

[…] I don't get why you want to run around with all these rugheads anyway." I automatically sneak a look around. One of these days he's going to say something like that and some big black dude is going to be right there.

A few years ago Mort had barely been able to crawl out of his bottle long enough to cold-read credulous idiots into believing he could speak to their dead loved ones.

All of Assyria's dealings with Egypt were obliged to pass through Philistia; geographic expediency also seems to have resulted in most of Assyria's interactions with Judah progressing via Philistia.