Thus Spake Sarah’s Rooster
For our global audience of trillions, it normally requires an inconvenient trip to Kentucky, Kansas, Texas, Oklahoma, or southern Ohio to hear this kind of rhetoric. In case it’s more convenient (certainly it would be more pleasant) to get to otherwise enlightened Pittsburgh …
Councilman Doug Shields, opposing a proposed ordinance:
“If we pass this bill we will be opening a panacea’s box.”
And about a bill which had passed:
“We have worked on this for two years and it has finally come to frutility.”
Oh yes, and they voted down the syntax.
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NOTE: The Nietzschean headline on this post is an original coinage by Joan More of Berkeley, who at the time was commenting on a grand pronouncement by one of our editors.
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She was commenting on your conspiracy nuts, I’ll bet.
Comment by Lynn — January 2, 2010 @ 9:21 am
But is she working alone? Did you see the Op-Ed piece today by Grassy Knoll?
Comment by Al — January 2, 2010 @ 11:43 am
… and to think that Doug Shields actually has access to a computer, and thus, to the Internet. He’s a true descendant of the fabled tryst between Professor Spooner and Mrs. Malaprop. His rhetoric is positively drivelicious.
Comment by Steve Alber — January 2, 2010 @ 2:53 pm
Now who could that mysterious editor have been?——hmmmm.
Comment by Joan — January 2, 2010 @ 4:35 pm
Who knows? They all look alike.
Comment by Al — January 2, 2010 @ 9:59 pm
Jeez, Doug Shields comments stick out like Tom Thumb!
Comment by Mike — January 2, 2010 @ 9:59 pm
Amazing! You’ve just alluded to a 48 year old malaprop by a BBDO media director who will remain nameless and shameless in perpetuity. After a presentation of a multi-million dollar campaign to a big steel client, he solemnly assured them that if they approved the campaign they and their products would stand out like Tom Thumb — which is so perfectly inept that if he had gotten it right, it would have been worse. Some of the brightest writers in advertising (his co-workers) held a brainstorm to see if they could come up with a worse malaprop, and they couldn’t. The closest they came was, “You can’t get blood from a turtle.”
Comment by Al — January 2, 2010 @ 10:01 pm
Of course your title is a Shieldism for Nietzsche’s novel “Thus Spake Zarathustra.
And now for some more whacky humor about that whacky Iranian Prophet:
Gimmie That Old Time Religion
We will follow Zarathustra,
Zarathustra like we use to,
I’m a Zarathustra booster,
And he’s good enough for me
(Chorus)
In the church of Aphrodite,
The priestess wears a see through nightie,
She’s a mighty righteous sightie,
And she’s good enough for me!
(Chorus)
We will worship like the Druids,
Dancing naked in the woods,
Drinking strange fermented fluids,
And its good enough for me
Chorus
Give me that old time religion
Give me that old time religion
Give me that old time religion
‘Cause it’s good enough for me!
Quoted by Joseph Campbell (1904-1987)
Comment by Mike — January 2, 2010 @ 10:25 pm
One of the greatest, most majestic hymns. Even greater in what Steve Alber calls “the original Persion” (per his verse below, under “A Rhyming Non-Palindrome”)
Comment by Al — January 2, 2010 @ 10:39 pm