From: Michael M. Butler (mmb@spies.com)
Date: Sat Mar 08 2003 - 14:35:31 MST
>> Sample moronspeak:
>>
>> "All chickens are for us or against us. Some chickens cross the road.
>> There are good doer chickens and bad doer chickens. Therefore the
>> chicken crossed the road."
>> But try translating that into French (and back to
>> English again) and you will understand why Powell is having problems at
>> the UN these days.
>
> I'm missing something, that sentence is perfectly capable of being
> translated back and forth. What do you mean?
Alfio:
They (the burgeoning "Party" of all those "Citizens") are trying to be
witty, and only half succeeding.
Moronic laboring for ironic effect regarding opposing morons has a kind of
diminishing returns effect, just as most irritated people are irritating.
I'm another, but I don't kid myself about it,
MMB
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