I've decided to have a running thread for phrases which, which while having due respect for the events that triggered them, lifted my eyebrows, if not my spirits, about the wordsmiths unusual (some might say misappropriated) choice of language. Anyone reading this is welcome to add any they come across in the comments. I'll add the ones that get my eyebrows aloft!
1. Starting on 07 March 25 - the self-destruction of a Space X rocket (umanned):
"a rapid unscheduled disassembly"
The wording is, of course, reasonably correct, although 'disassembly' does imply a stuctured process, rather than an uncontrolled parting of the ways of the various components. The BBC is less coy - it exploded. The lightshow was quite spectacular as captured by a couple of people in the Bahamas.
2. Sue alerted me to this description of POTUS she found on a British political vlog:
"About as popular as a hedgehog suppository"
I just wonder what the vlogger thinks about JDV?
3. 10 March: "A parsitic illegal immigrant"
(Ooops, I should have cut and pasted this rather than try and spell it out ... parsitic? Who Moi???)
Whoever could Mr 2-shirts Bannon be referring to?
4. 26 March: I couldn't resist this bit of schadenfreude from Moxie Marlinspike (sic) the founder of the Signal app:
"There are so many great reasons to be on Signal. Now including the opportunity for the vice president of the United States of America to randomly add you to a group chat for coordination of sensitive military operations.”
5. 15/06 I came across this a few weeks ago. Whether it holds true in every respect, I don't know, but it does seem that for everything from trade tariffs to threats against Russia regarding Ukraine, POTUS really does deserve his nickname ... TACO
6. 05/07 Not so much a phrase this, but ...
(courtesy of MSN News)
... so spoke the Chairman of the Board of the John F Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts ...
7. A very sad post today ... it's return of TACO man from Alaska.
