I particularly enjoy his near constant resort to the word "other". he will go off on some tangent as though he is going to recite some long list of events, or issues, or places, but then only turns out to be able to come up with two or three. finding himself in a corner, he repeatedly turns to "other"; "and other places", "and those other things", and just plain ol' "and others". sometimes, "other" is accompanied by a bizarre gesture with one (or sometimes both) of his hands; sort of a tiny windmill sort of thing he does as he desperately tries to find his way out of this verbal corner that he has talked himself into.
watch him. he does it three or four places in every speech. sort of like the fact that he only seems to own two ties; one pale blue, and one a peculiar shade between pink and red. it turns out that there are probably dozens of them, and they are custom made; they all have a "JK" design with american flags on them....
I particularly enjoy his near constant resort to the word "other". he will go off on some tangent as though he is going to recite some long list of events, or issues, or places, but then only turns out to be able to come up with two or three. finding himself in a corner, he repeatedly turns to "other"; "and other places", "and those other things", and just plain ol' "and others". sometimes, "other" is accompanied by a bizarre gesture with one (or sometimes both) of his hands.I know just what you mean. I worked with a guy once that would always have one good point to make. But somehow, his brain told him that one point wasn't good enough to make an impact. So he would ALWAYS make his point and follow it with "this, that and the other." It almost became a vocal tic like "y'know?" is these days. It drove me crazy that he couldn't develop a clear, structured and logical argument in his mind before putting his mouth to work. Kerry reminds me a lot of that guy. What was that old saying..."Engage brain before putting mouth in gear?"