Did you by chance read The Right Stuff, by Tom Wolfe? He describes “jet jock” culture and the phrase comes up describing what can happen when everything totally goes wrong, your plane goes into a spin and you drill your jet into the Earth at full power.
“Auguring in”.
Didn’t read the book but I am familiar with the phrase.
Using that as a basis for a pun of inauguration looked like your touch.
Comparing Queeg to Trump – so unfair!
Trump doesn’t have any balls.
The Right Stuff also gave us the phrase “screwed the pooch,” which I believe will come in handy during the next few years or impeachment, whichever comes first.
Well, not until he gets a presidential pet. And knowing Trump’s libido and lack of discrimination, the phrase will take an all-too-literal turn.
PLEASE don’t say he’s considering getting a cartoon French Poodle.
Originally Posted by jsc1953
“On NPR this weekend there was a discussion of how Trump and his Cabinet will actually govern, and the NPR moderator referred to the Cabinet as “the grown-ups in the room” and he did so without finger quotes, irony, or apology.”
NPR is radio, how do you know there weren’t finger quotes?
An excellent point.
(I think it’s possible to detect the subtle inflection in tone, but that’s a topic for another thread.)
And yet you are refusing to answer directly. Hmm
Let alone stainless steel ones, amirite? :rolleyes:
Maybe it will be a Penthouse Pet.
Nah, Trump’s are more like tiny strawberries.
God, you just made me visualize Trump introducing a blonde bimbo in spike heels and a Sexy Kitty costume to the press corps as “the new White House pet.”
Call up Saturday Night Live and sell the idea to them!
She’ll be a Japanese robot that is very lifelike.
Actually, it occurred to me a while ago that Kellyanne Conway might be an escaped animatronic figure from the Disney World warehouses. She’s not capable of thought and can only say whatever is prerecorded on her voice track. Anyone else got a better explanation?
In fairness, that would be classier than his usual bitches.
:smack:
I think I’m just going to call him “Twitler”.
Now you know, and knowing is half the battle!
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I expect that page to come down as soon as the administration becomes aware of it.
King Donald the Putrid’s latest tweet:
“Do you believe it? The Obama Administration agreed to take thousands of illegal immigrants from Australia. Why? I will study this dumb deal!”
This after a disastrously embarrassing telephone conversation with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. Among the highlights is Turnbull telling Trump several times it was 1250 refugees the US agreed to take, but Trump consistently misstating the number as 2000. And Trump hanging up the phone in anger.
:dubious: Do you figure that maybe once he’s personally asserted to every one of the 7.5 billion people on the globe that he had a yuuuge electoral college win and yuuuuge inauguration crowds, he’ll be able to let it go?
Dude still thinks he’s running The Apprentice. If the Australian PM shows up with a proposal he doesn’t like, all he has to do is shout “You’re a loser! You’re fired!”