Thursday, January 13, 2005
WORDS IS FUNNY: via M, i went here for comments about sen. ted kennedy's speech yesterday. his comments included the following phrase: 'the corn-bred middle-American voter'. has anyone else heard the phrase 'corn-bred' before? it seems to me to be an amalgamation of two phrases, 'corn-fed', often used to describe, e.g., midwestern football players, and 'corn bread', an edible delight made from such things as corn meal, flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, egg, milk, and shortening.
i did a quick google search, and, while i didn't find the phrase 'corn-bred' used to describe midwesterners, i did find this:
the article goes on, if you're interested.
so, i have to ask: has noam scheiber (the author of said phrase) ever been to the midwest? does he even know any midwesterners? does he really think we reproduce with cereal crops?
oh, and by the way--i think i figured out the secret key to the rising theocracy in the united states. you see, if you switch around two of the letters in the word 'sacred', you get the word 'scared'. and doesn't that explain all the ignorant religionists in the u.s.? scared of things like 'free thinking', 'ideas', 'tolerance', 'science', 'kittens', 'mittens', and everything else? so they're going to take away ALL YOUR RIGHTS!!! AHHH!!!!*
*please note that the foregoing paragraph contains SARCASM, though i wouldn't be shocked to find such an explanation on conspiracy-theory websites across this here internet superhighway.
i did a quick google search, and, while i didn't find the phrase 'corn-bred' used to describe midwesterners, i did find this:
Corn-bred pharmaceuticals
Jan 1, 2001 12:00 PM
Karen McMahon
Drugs to prevent herpes and AIDS may be grown in a farmer's field of corn. A collaboration between a well-established drug manufacturer and a new company developing antibody drug products may make corn plants the ultimate pharmaceutical factory.
the article goes on, if you're interested.
so, i have to ask: has noam scheiber (the author of said phrase) ever been to the midwest? does he even know any midwesterners? does he really think we reproduce with cereal crops?
oh, and by the way--i think i figured out the secret key to the rising theocracy in the united states. you see, if you switch around two of the letters in the word 'sacred', you get the word 'scared'. and doesn't that explain all the ignorant religionists in the u.s.? scared of things like 'free thinking', 'ideas', 'tolerance', 'science', 'kittens', 'mittens', and everything else? so they're going to take away ALL YOUR RIGHTS!!! AHHH!!!!*
*please note that the foregoing paragraph contains SARCASM, though i wouldn't be shocked to find such an explanation on conspiracy-theory websites across this here internet superhighway.
