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August 06, 2004Whole lotta smackin' goin' on...A bit more on Sheila. She used the phrase 'smacks of McCartyism' when referring to the allegations against poor selfless André (roll eyes). I don't think there's one tired phrase that annoys me more than 'smacks of'. Just for fun, I went to Google to find out what things were smacking of these days: compromise, selective prosecution, intimidation, desperation, intolerance, commissar politics, 1984 and Big Brother, Orwell's 1984, cyber-McCarthyism, dishonesty, hypocrisy, impropriety, controversy, the nanny state, being disingenuous, stupidity and ignorance, censorship, unfair policies, CBC bias, ANC Electioneering, the bad old days, déjà vu, double standards, false morals, xenophobia, emotional lip gloss, elegance, style, Chicago-style political cronyism, a Roman power game, Reagan's Grenada stunt, Clintonian mendacity, 'Pax Americana', Fianna Fáil interference, favoritism, racism, sexism, colonialism, fascism, communism, abuse, piñata politics, a new imperialism, a whitewash, a witch hunt, a shady deal, politics, wrongness, out-dated logic, alchemy, class, success, revenge, Andrew Jackson all over again, some weird California woo-woo thing, and the worst excesses of the Scandinavian eugenics movement.Well. Now you know. Posted by Bruce Gottfred at August 6, 2004 09:26 AM | TrackBack Comments
okay I don`t get this, did you just google ``smacks of`` or is there some source you found listing those or what. Sheila is not worth the time, sorry. I don`t think anyone reads her do they? You shouldn`t, well except as fodder for your righteous anger. She is a fool and will lose this job as well as the last, and hopefully will have to live on a budget. No expenses. I wonder if the post is giving her an expense budget. If so we should quit the post. Whatever happened to that journal that was going to come out of the west? Posted by: michelle at August 8, 2004 10:34 AMYou have to google "smacks +of" to get it to works, as google generally ignores those little words. Google is wonderful. Posted by: Bruce Gottfred at August 8, 2004 02:19 PMPost a comment
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