Maricopa County Sheriff's Office controversies. The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office (MCSO) is a law enforcement agency in Maricopa County, Arizona that has been involved in many controversies since 1995.
It was then used to mean 'a sudden state of activity (or inactivity) or state of mind', as in this early example, taken from William Warner's Albion's England, 1586: His seruants fear his solemn fittes.. The phrase 'fits and starts' is somewhat tautological, as both allude to sporadic activity.
Coined by American humorist Gelett Burgess (1866â1951) on a book dust jacket at a trade association dinner in 1907. It said âYES, this is a âBLURBâ!â and featured a (fictitious) âMiss Belinda Blurbâ shown calling out, described as âin the act of blurbingâ.