Weasel Words

FinsburyParkCarrots
FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
edited September 2006 in Poetry, Prose, Music & Art
Some might say
that it could be argued
from a cited inference
based on what sources have told us
that it turns out that
scientists think
weasel words
as certain people term them

come

from

weasels
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  • justam
    justam Posts: 21,415
    :d
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  • justam
    justam Posts: 21,415
    justam wrote:
    :d

    This was supposed to be a large smile...but something happened to it!! :)
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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Some might say
    that's an upside down p
    kissing a train stop

    I wouldn't
    of course

    ;)
  • justam
    justam Posts: 21,415
    :)
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  • HunterandHunted
    HunterandHunted Posts: 140
    Or perhaps from their lesser known cousin the Sea-Weasel!
    The product of an unholy union between the common Weasel and the Otter.
    One of God's own prototypes; too weird to live, too rare to die.
    With a penchant for scrabble...
    What do you call 3 sheep tied together in the middle of Wales? - A Leisure Centre.
  • DopeBeastie
    DopeBeastie Posts: 2,513
    cUte!





    weasel devices set me free
  • Bu2
    Bu2 Posts: 1,693
    There once was a weasel named Dweezil
    who, in his room, set up an easel....
    Feels Good Inc.
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    There once was a weasel named Dweezil
    who set up a canvass and easel
    then drew a red dot.
    A blood clot, or a spot?
    The weasel said, "No, it's a measle."
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    I take it, the concept of weasel words is familiar to you? I found myself saying, "Some might say..." in a post elsewhere, and wrote the above in a moment of self-parody.

    Now, I'm thinking of that scene in "Some Like it Hot", when all the gangsters are celebrating Spats Columbo's birthday party:

    "Some say Spats Columbo's gotten too big for his SPATS!!!... But I sayyy..." You remember what happens next.
  • DopeBeastie
    DopeBeastie Posts: 2,513
    i've never heard the term, fins
    though i can imagine

    lol... and i have wiped more words out of existence because of this self-inspection than i care to admit.

    still... your funny stuff is so damned cute :D good job :D
  • Being Enlightened
    Being Enlightened Posts: 5,746
    :D LOL! I agree with PN--you're funny stuff is quite cute.
    Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    The funny thing about this Wikipedia article on weasel words, is that it doesn't cite its sources. So, it's weasely:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_words
  • DopeBeastie
    DopeBeastie Posts: 2,513
    weasel words, lol

    the world revolves on 'em.

    it's so sad.
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Fox News certainly does!
  • DopeBeastie
    DopeBeastie Posts: 2,513
    gawd... i got written up for a lack of respect for authority, monday morning. i've been training myself for this job that was put on me over a year ago. i've been held to standards of excellence without training... just some overt reliance on my "smarts" to pull me through, and somehow held to magically pull the answers from my own fat ass. i have to deal with a premenopausal, moody woman who has no training, either. she's right. i don't respect her. if she wants to be the leader, she should fucking lead. and if she wants to lose the most educated, longest-standing person on the crew besides herself, she can keep writing me up because I don't respect her.

    regardless, i wish i could replace the disdainful scowls she makes come across my face with some bullshit weasel faces. as it stands, i rather enjoy having money to pay my bills

    i'd love to tell her that i don't respect her because she commands no respect.

    it's just not adviseable, lol



    feck!
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    You could have said,

    "In the light of experience, I'm aware that some might argue, given a superior education, that the question of a perceived lack of respect for authority amoung employees, is a subjective and contentious one. It might be further suggested in this regard, that the issue of the substance and standard of deference to some maybe questionable authority is, therefore, perhaps not a matter, which might be considered of paramount importance, compared with consideration of the actual workrate, insight, experience and input of the workers in the perpetuation of company success and profit."

    Or just told her to fuck off.


    :)
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    I typed too fast. I meant, among.
  • DopeBeastie
    DopeBeastie Posts: 2,513
    lol...

    i WISH


    no. instead, i just bawled my eyes out, said the word fuck a couple of times, dropped my glasses on the floor, and left.


    lmao


    i'm such a punk!
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Aww, you see, I'm one of those people who has a pathological and complete lack of respect for authority, in any shape or form. I do tell people to fuck off. I've managed to get away with it for thirty-four years. I sure ain't gonna change now! :D
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Well, that's in the real world. On the Internet, I'm respectful to all. It's usually the other way around, for people, isn't it? LOL

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