# Broomstick - Does His Ass Say rebeW or Not? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 19, 2015, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broomstick-does-his-ass-say-rebew-or-not/715343 "2015-03-19T00:28:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 41
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broomstick-does-his-ass-say-rebew-or-not/715343/41 "2015-03-19T11:07:36Z")
It’s not lying, exactly. I would guess it begins as poetic license or hyperbolic exaggeration to make the point, but, because this is the SDMB, someone will almost inevitably point out the literal interpretation’s unlikeliness or impossibility. At that point, of course, she should simply choose to admit the literal exaggeration. But for whatever reason, she chooses to double down instead. I remember several years ago an off-handed claim from her about looking for work and finding no jobs in the help wanted section. > [@I pit Poverty and the current economic crisis](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-poverty-and-the-current-economic-crisis/479487/16): > > Monday of this week there was a three block line at the unemployment office as of 8 am in the morning. There are NO, repeat NO want ads in the local papers, not even for crap jobs. It’s been like that for weeks. The expectation is that it will only get worse. Another poster responded that they both lived in the same area and the paper had plenty of job listings. At that point, had she simply said, “I meant suitable jobs, or jobs I could realistically do,” the issue would have ended. No, she doubled down: the print edition she saw had no jobs. None. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broomstick-does-his-ass-say-rebew-or-not/715343)._