Beware of absolutes. Weave in enough qualifiers, and you too can be the best in your class. A hospital in Camden advertises itself as "the leading academic medical center in South Jersey." Question: How many others are there? There are other hospitals in southern New Jersey, but how many medical schools are there, and how many of these are combined operations?
Our favorite is the raceway, which proudly proclaimed itself "the fastest" high-banked, quarter-mile, macadam speedway "in the East." The Samurai Rim Man counts four qualifiers, which may make said speedway the only one, therefore it must be "the fastest."
Have you noticed that the first verse of the National Anthem is a series of questions? And there are no answers? ("Oh say, can you see ... ?")
Not only that, but the meter is the same one often used by Tony Soprano? ("Bah dah boom, bah dah boom, bah dah bing")
Pug Mahoney speaks: "A little knowledge may be a dangerous thing, but the answer is more education, not continued ignorance."
Fashion changes. Art endures.
Shetland sheep dog = Lassie lite.
Word play is foreplay to poetry.
Compassion fatigue is when friends get tired of hearing about your problems.
Lines I may never have the chance to use:
"She got in touch with her inner Hester Prynne."
"He was as upstanding and righteous as Arthur Dimmesdale."
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