Saturday, August 16, 2008

Language-cop Citations

TV Commercial: "You should read Sailing News too." In addition to Soap Opera Digest?--or, like all my fellow intrepid yachtsmen?

Police spokesman: "We want deadly force to be the last thing we use." Deadly force is always the last thing police use!

The catalogue offers five grades of pillows: Good, Better, Best, Supreme, and Ultimate. Best is good, better than Good--even better than Better; but Best isn't best--Supreme and Ultimate are both better than Best!

The NASA official described the enthusiastic efforts of the Mars-mission scientists as "eagerly beavering"!

The mayor responded to criticism of the slow pace in solving a recent crime: "No investigation goes without some pimples bursting occasionally"!

The private gumshoe said he was hired to "documentate" whether the philandering husband was engaged in a "rendezvoutation"!

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