Of Long Shots and Quail

Cleaning out old emails. Found this nugget buried in a Third Court of Appeals (Austin) opinion from March 2004:

Barrientos: Okay, so you’re trying to specify a certain …

Brown: … target …

Barrientos: Ok that’s fine. I just thought I’d point that out to you. That’s like from here to me to you how far that landfill would be, technically?

Brown: That’s about just a long put[t], Senator.

Barrientos: Just thought I’d … It’s a nice quail shot, too.

Here’s the opinion if you want to read it for yourself.