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Bwahahahaha

Julian Sanchez | 12.18.2003 5:32 AM

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To coin a phrase, "heh." Via Brooke Oberwetter.

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  1. Jim Walsh   21 years ago

    Oh…my…god…

  2. Mark S.   21 years ago

    Those guys have their work cut out for the.

  3. Mark S.   21 years ago

    Those guys have their work cut out for them.

  4. GoonFood   21 years ago

    I’ll see your “heh”, and raise a “lol”. That is very funny.

    Of course now you are going to have to put up with the venting anger and hatred of the entire Islamic community, but I guess that is the price you pay for poking fun at those with no sense of humor.

  5. copy editor   21 years ago

    OK, this is nitpicking, but it’s a pet peeve … to “coin” a phrase means to invent a phrase. As in, to mint your very own figure of speech. Very few of us have done it.

    But almost every time I hear the phrase “coin a phrase” (now I wonder who coined that one …), the writer is trying to say “borrow a phrase.” In this case, I think it’s an InstaPundit homage.

  6. HadEnough   21 years ago

    I’ll coin a phrase, or at propose a term: Sanchez; of or referring to ephemeral pop-culture trivia.

    As in, “Jesus, not another Sanchez! Gay humor is sooo 20th century.”

    The “Dirty Sanchez”, however, shall remain eternally amusing.

  7. timks   21 years ago

    I like Tim Blair’s comment: Queer Eye for the Murderous Bastard Guy.

  8. Mitch   21 years ago

    Copy Editor,

    I have always thought that when people say, “To coin a phrase,” and then repeat some characteristic phrase of someone famous, which I see pretty commonly, they are aware of what “coin” means and are being ironic. But maybe I am giving them the benefit of the doubt undeservedly.

  9. bigslacker   21 years ago

    Would those guys be Saddamites?

  10. Julian Sanchez   21 years ago

    The “to coin a phrase” was tounge-in-cheek…

  11. Jim Treacher   21 years ago

    “When you’re flaying someone alive, always flay with the grain.”

  12. Brian Jones   21 years ago

    To coin a phrase, The only thing worse than arrant pedantry is errant pedantry. Many people use “to coin a phrase” followed by a common phrase in exactly the way that Julian has, and with full knowledge.

    Now, improper use of “begging the question” is another thing, but nobody’s done that here so I’ll move on.

  13. Chris Puzak   21 years ago

    I’ll see your Saddam on Queer Eye picture and raise you Qveer Eye for thye Medieval Man –

    http://www.bobsawyer.com/index.php?panel=1&alt=Qveere Eye for thye Medieval Man

  14. me   21 years ago

    I’ll see your Qveer Eye for thye Medieval Man and raise you Queer Eye For The Saddam Guy

  15. wierd   21 years ago

    that super!

  16. wierd   21 years ago

    that super!

  17. wierd   21 years ago

    that super!

  18. wierd   21 years ago

    that super!

  19. wierd   21 years ago

    that super!

  20. wierd   21 years ago

    that super!

  21. wierd   21 years ago

    that super!

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