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January 28, 2004
Wednesday
 
 
Samizdata quote of the day
Perry de Havilland (London)  Slogans/quotations

He's a shark in wolf's clothing!
- Gabriel Syme

(I'd love to tell you the context... but alas I dare not)

Comments

Chicken!


Posted by JohnJo at January 28, 2004 03:43 PM

As this is a slogans/quotations topic, a friend of mine once came up with a classic mixed metaphor in a meeting, declaring that we could see the carrot at the end of the tunnel....

(It made the Dogbert's ruling class newsletter!)


Posted by Ian Grey at January 28, 2004 04:05 PM

Oh, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on!


Posted by Mrs Doyle at January 28, 2004 09:20 PM

He was just taking a sheep shot at someone...


Posted by triticale at January 29, 2004 05:28 AM

was used to describe Bob Shrum on the evote.com website in a piece explaining who Al Gore's senior staffers were during the '00 campaign. Though I suspect that that's not who's being talked about here.


Posted by JSAllison at January 29, 2004 03:00 PM
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