Boy, am I sick of this phrase. If they’ll just stop talking about it on the networks, cable, newspapers, and Internet, I promise I’ll deliver the solution. Which looks a lot like this:
It’s not like we’re talking about human beings here. Or U.S. Troops, meaning the greatest fighting force the world has ever known. Just boots. Boots.
Listen to the lyrics. Not kidding. Best critique of the Obama administration and his foreign policy I’ve heard.
English used to be the most eloquent language created by the mind of man. Why have we allowed it to become an empty joke?
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What a great post. I’m sick of hearing this too. Let the boots fall.
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HaHA! Absolutely. Air superiority beats boots on the ground any day.
Given your background in corporate communication, you know way more than I do about corporate wankspeak. So I bet you can laugh along with Weird Al when he mocks it here:
And then Weird Al cozies up to my inner grammar nazi here:
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WTF is the problem with my linkage?? I KNOW HTML DAMMIT!
Again: Weird Al on corp wankspeak: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyV_UG60dD4
Weird Al on grammar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc
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