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To: ColdOne
This made me think of an episode in "Yes Minister" (great BBC series), wherein Sir Humphrey (chief bureaucrat) is reluctant to admit to Hacker (his Minister) that he's the blame for something.

"Sir Humphrey: The identity of the official whose alleged responsibility for this hypothetical oversight that has been the subject of recent discussion is not shrouded in quite such impenetrable obscurity as certain previous disclosures may have led you to assume; but not to put too fine a point on it, the individual in question is, it may surprise you to learn, one whom your present interlocutor is in the habit of defining by means of the perpendicular pronoun.

Hacker: I beg your pardon?

Sir Humphrey: It was... I. "

It seems that Obama is overly fond of the perpendicular pronoun.

32 posted on 07/12/2014 2:14:45 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

Yes, “Yes, Minister” was a great series. It was followed by “Yes, Prime Minister.”


38 posted on 07/12/2014 4:14:46 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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