Re: How do you grow brocolli?
On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 15:39 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
> Matt Johnson wrote:
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----
> > From: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Sent: Tuesday, 25 April, 2006 2:18:25 PM
> > Subject: Re: How do you grow brocolli?
> >
> > On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 17:09 +0700, Ali Milis wrote:
> >
> >>>How do you grow brocolli?
> >>
> >>Read My Lips: Ask Dan Quayle!
> >
> >
> >>That's a mixed metaphor, if I ever saw one.
> >
> >
> > Metaphor? I don't see a metaphor.
>
> "Read my lips" is a metaphor, I do believe.
> The literal meaning is "pay close attention to what I say",
> so it is certainly a figure of speech.
For all you non-USAians:
George H. W. Bush made the famous campaign promise:
Read my lips: no new taxes!
Dan Quayle was his VP, and famously misspelled "potatoe".
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson, LA USA
The political implications of this picture are pretty amazing.
http://www-1.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/waywewore/waywewore_28.
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