Doggedly searching for the crux of the biscuit.
...I mean 'in exactly the same words'.
"He was a state sponsor of terror. In other words, the government had declared, you are a state sponsor of terror." —President Bush on Saddam Hussein.
TrackBackWell, while silly and pompous, this is not technically vacuous. "He was, in other words the government had declared him to be, a state sponsor of terror."
Posted by: Vance Maverick at January 31, 2006 02:00 PMthis is not technically vacuous
Even a blind pig finds a stopped clock twice a day. Or something. However, of all the words in his initial sentence that could have used clarification, "was" isn't on the list.
Posted by: apostropher at January 31, 2006 02:44 PMYou know, a broken clock may be right twice a day, but a slow clock is wrong 24/7.
Posted by: M/tch M/lls at January 31, 2006 08:08 PMActually, Mitch, if the clock is slow, at some point it will be right. If a clock is set wrong, well, that's a whole nother story.
Posted by: jvance at February 1, 2006 11:24 PMHence the old saying "yo mama so slow she right on time".
Which is way funnier than that "yo mama so shaggy . . ." thing that b-wo is always going on about.
Posted by: M/tch M/lls at February 2, 2006 10:52 PM