Post by hunt4fun1 on Jul 21, 2007 18:18:32 GMT -5
The first installment of a five part series.
Is a “bellyful” a standard unit of measure, like cups, pints, rods or ropanis? Just exactly how much is a “bellyful,” anyway? Throughout my life I’ve heard people complain of “having a bellyful” of something or other, but I don’t recall ever seeing it comparatively expressed in quarts, quintals or hogsheads.
All I know is when I have one. And though the condition seems incongruous — I’ve only got one belly — I could swear I’ve got several bellyfuls right now.
Weapons of Mass Destruction — WMDs. This one’s good for 3.8 Bellyfuls at least. Our so-called “journalists” are so tired of typing it they have it “macro-keyed” on their word-processing programs so it auto-enters in every other sentence, while every third politician in DC has mouthed it so many times they run it into one word — weapunzuvmastiztrukshin — which is kind of interesting since so few of them can even define the term. I’m really sick of this one.
Of course, the usual context is, “Bush lied! There were no WMDs in Iraq!” What’s going on? Is there some form of global amnesia working here? If Bush lied, then so did virtually everybody in Washington and beyond, both Republicans and Democrats. But they weren’t lying. Here’s the bullet on Saddam’s WMDs: Had ’em, used ’em, workin’ on ’em, moved ’em and hid ’em — and half the world knew it.
To be continued......
