Showing posts with label tv. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tv. Show all posts
Friday, September 21, 2007
All Euphemisms, All the Time
Today on TV I heard about police interviewing persons of interest in a shooting, and then I saw ads for Sunsweet plum juice and an IUC for women who don't want to become pregnant. (Perhaps I have a suspect prune device.)
Thursday, April 05, 2007
Quote Patrol
"Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds," Keith Olbermann recited this week.
Uh, no. People often erroneously say "small," but the otherwise truth-squadding MSNBC personality also managed to miss the main point of the Ralph Waldo Emerson quotation.
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." Not every consistency is foolish. Write it down.
(For all you reference-book addicts, the recently published Yale Book of Quotations sounds like a promising alternative to the old familiar Bartlett's.)
Uh, no. People often erroneously say "small," but the otherwise truth-squadding MSNBC personality also managed to miss the main point of the Ralph Waldo Emerson quotation.
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." Not every consistency is foolish. Write it down.
(For all you reference-book addicts, the recently published Yale Book of Quotations sounds like a promising alternative to the old familiar Bartlett's.)
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