Fooling the fools
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This caught my eye from Tim Shipman in the Sunday Telegraph:
George W.Bush once joked: "You can fool some of the people all of the time and those are the ones you want to concentrate on."
It seems that Gordon Brown is a firm follower of the maxim, given his plan to follow throwing billions of pounds of our money down the Northern Rock drain with another hairbrained scheme to waste more of our money.
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Tiberius
August 31st, 2008 8:56pmSounds like a proposal to ratchet up the scorched earth policy to a self-nuking one.
Chris
August 31st, 2008 9:37pmThat's 'harebrained,' whichever hand you type it with.
Stephen Pollard
August 31st, 2008 11:06pmActually, Chris, it's not. The OED has both listed (I checked) but says that hairbrained is now the more usual spelling.
phil
September 1st, 2008 10:02amwelcome back as a southpaw
Chris
September 1st, 2008 10:13amHow very depressing. I was watching a programme about 'Dad's Army' the other night, and the subtitler had Corporal Jones saying, a propos his trusty bayonet, 'It's the cold stew, sir. They don't like it up 'em!' Presumably the OED will be telling us that 'stainless stew' is allowable in a few years.
nicole
September 1st, 2008 10:22am'Hairbrained is now the more usual spelling.' Usual ain't necessarily better. How does hair come into it? Surely the original meaning is having the brain of a rabbit.
dearieme
September 1st, 2008 11:11pmAh, Stephen, you have joined the democracy of the ignorant. But do we come to the Speccie for that?