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| Metaphor alert: there's hogs in the bilges, Skipper! |
| 2008-04-24 |
| Denis Boyles, National Review's "Media Blog" You always know you're reading a blue-state paper when the metaphors start going to seed. From The New York Times, here's Roger Cohen, a man who no doubt farms as well as he sails, attempting to dismiss the allegations of biofuel critics: Most of this, to borrow a farm image, is hogwash and bilge. Whose farm? Anyway, get the pigs out of the bass boat and you'll be more convincing, Roger. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna hoist the sow on the mizzen and go set crab pots on the back forty 'fore the layin' hens get washed overboard. |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #9 That's "Hogwash and Bilgewater" (Yes I'm old) |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2008-04-24 22:13 |
| #8 This thread is not the least bit kosher. /so there! |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-04-24 21:07 |
| #7 He should remember that, "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make a silk purse out of a pig in a poke." |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2008-04-24 20:46 |
| #6 Cohen's got bats in the belfry... |
| Posted by: Raj 2008-04-24 19:50 |
| #5 "Hogwash and bilge"? What is this, 1898? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-04-24 18:51 |
| #4 Roger, try some of this simply wonderful sheep-dip... |
| Posted by: Pappy 2008-04-24 18:26 |
| #3 Damnit! I hate it when that happens. Hogs in the bilges, pigs in the bass boat, sows on the mizzen. Where is this sudden porcine invasion coming from and when is it going to stop? We're all doomed, doomed I tell you! It's only a matter of time before pigs fly out somebody's butt! |
| Posted by: FOTSGreg 2008-04-24 15:52 |
| #2 Swimming pigs, easy to herd, but difficult to milk. |
| Posted by: wxjames 2008-04-24 13:17 |
| #1 pig farm boats maybe? Kinda like the ManBearPig. Enviros love making up things, and trying to sound edumacted when they are actually ignorant as hell. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2008-04-24 12:34 |