For somebody who mangled words as much as Chiles did, changing "Sadowski" to "Sandusky" and "parental" to "perennial" and "organism" to "orgasm," he must have been a heck of a scrabble player.
And the memories of his children bear that out. One day when he was playing with his young family in Lakeland, he convinced himself that "bullbombs" was a word. Rhea and the kids demanded verification. He gladly relented: "You know, the Star-Spangled Banner, 'Bull bombs bursting in air!'"
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