Posted on 12/31/2009 2:36:25 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Once-presidential phrase casualty of word war
DETROIT The phrase "shovel ready," incessantly invoked by the Obama administration this year as a way to sell its $787 billion federal stimulus bill, died Thursday.
The official cause of death was overuse, according to Lake Superior State University, which announced the phrase's demise in its annual List of Words to Be Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-use, Over-use and General Uselessness, released Thursday.
"Shovel ready" dug its own grave by forcing its way into speeches and out of the mouths of the president and too many other politicians in past months.
"Stick a shovel in it. It's done," seethed Joe Grimm of loomfield Hills, Mich., in his nomination to the university's Word Banishment Committee. Grimm is a visiting journalist at Michigan State University and a former recruiter and editor at the Detroit Free Press.
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You have to be shovel-ready around Obama, to dig yourself out of the mountains of BS that he spews.
And as good old Harry Truman said “if you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen”. It was Harry, wasn’t it?
“(Obama killed “shovel ready”?)”
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Hell!
There’s a whole sh!tpot of words I try not to even use any more, since “they’ve” basterdized the King’s English—probably chied among them—for me—is “share”!
Semper American
Dick G
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