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President Biden’s frequent use of archaic and odd expressions during public remarks has even stumped White House staffers, who are left confused at times about what the commander in chief is trying to convey, according to a new report. The 80-year-old president’s most recent bizarre utterance occurred last Friday during a speech on gun control at the University of Hartford’s campus in Connecticut. “God save the Queen, man,” Biden said to end his speech, baffling journalists and White House staffers alike. The White House has yet to explain what the president meant by the line. Olivia Dalton, the Biden administration’s...

To her credit, it’s the same number of letters as fire. Nancy Pelosi has been very confused this year. She keeps calling President Trump “President Bush” and continues to struggle with her vocabulary. The latest example happened in an interview with KRON when she “mixed her metaphors,” as The Washington Free Beacon reported, when talking about what the First Amendment does and doesn’t cover when it comes to free speech. "The Constitution does not say that a person can shout — yell wolf in a crowded theater,” Pelosi said, stumbling. “If you are endangering people, then you don’t have a...

Irritating phrases and words are not confined to political circles, or solely to Washington, although here in the nation’s capital they burrow in and proliferate like obsolete, but entrenched, government programs. This is a call to arms to fight them—but only metaphorically.15: “WAR ON [FILL IN THE BLANK]” Syria’s civil war has produced 2.5 million refugees and a death toll of 160,000, a tragedy that has galvanized neither major political party into action. So next time a Democrat brays about the so-called Republican “war on women” or a Republican trumpets the Obama administration’s “war on coal,” tell them you’ve...

Paraprosdokian (noun): Figure of speech in which the  latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected  ...frequently used in a humorous situation. "I've had a perfectly wonderful evening... but this wasn't it." —Groucho Marx "If I could say a few words... I'd be a better public speaker." —Homer Simpson "You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing—after they have tried everything else." —Winston Churchill "If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised." — Dorothy Parker "(He's) a modest man... who has much to...

You were born with your future facial expressions 22:00 16 October 2006 NewScientist.com news service Roxanne Khamsi Facial expressions appear to be at least partially inherited, according to a study of blind people and their relatives. Experts say the findings indicate that people do not always learn their expressions for certain emotions by copying the facial quirks they see as youngsters. To understand the “nature vs. nurture” component of facial expressions, Israeli researchers recruited 21 people who were born blind along with 30 of their relatives. The 51 volunteers were videotaped as they recounted happy, sad and aggravating life experiences,...

You don't need to actually see or smell something unpleasant to know it is disgusting -- you only need to look at someone else's expression, according to research published on Wednesday. The brain responds the same whether a person actually experiences something disgusting, or just sees another person reacting, Italian researchers found. Writing in the October 30th issue of the journal Neuron, they said they saw the same brain activity in people who smelled a foul odor and in those looking at someone else smelling a foul odor. Dr. Giacomo Rizzolatti of the University of Parma, Italy, and colleagues used...