I plead “hyperbole,” your honor.
Then I sentence you to be taken from this place, and thence to a place of execution where you shall be hanged by the neck until you are dead. That, son, is hyperbole. Sure, it’s a dangerous weakness in a judge, I’ll grant; buuut perhaps it’ll provide your stupid ass with some perspective. Next hangin’ case!
Comment by DougM (Progophobe) — January 31, 2013 @ 10:32 pm
I shudder to think of the sentence for a mixed metaphor.
I plead “hyperbole,” your honor.
Then I sentence you to be taken from this place, and thence to a place of execution where you shall be hanged by the neck until you are dead. That, son, is hyperbole. Sure, it’s a dangerous weakness in a judge, I’ll grant; buuut perhaps it’ll provide your stupid ass with some perspective. Next hangin’ case!
Comment by DougM (Progophobe) — January 31, 2013 @ 10:32 pm
I shudder to think of the sentence for a mixed metaphor.
Comment by Jess — February 1, 2013 @ 5:41 am
Now, if he had said he was near the courthouse and had access to an AR-15, they woulda scrambled at least two SWAT Teams!!!!!!
Comment by Colonel Jerry USMC — February 1, 2013 @ 7:00 am
“he had access to guns”
Whatinhell does that mean?
Anyone with sufficiency of energy and a deficiency of morals can get a gun anywhere, anytime.
Comment by Claire: rebellious pink pig with car keys - and a *cause* — February 1, 2013 @ 8:19 am
“Were it within my power, I would reach back to the founding days of our great republic and order you BURNED AT THE STAKE!”
– Ghost Busters 2
Comment by mojo — February 1, 2013 @ 2:35 pm