President Barack Obama took no chances in his second prime-time news conference, reading a prepared statement in which he took both sides of the AIG bonus brouhaha and asked an anxious nation for its patience.
Is it time I face the inevitable? That no longer will the proper metaphor be used?
The metaphor for a "quick fix" is magic bullet, the phrase coined after Dr. Paul Ehrlich discovered a chemical cure for syphilis. A silver bullet is either a device for killing werewolves, according to popular legend, or the nickname for a product of Coors Brewing Company.
*sigh*
6 comments:
The silver bullet was also left by the Lone Ranger to signify that good triumphs over evil.
Werewolf? At work currently, thank you.
Lighten up on the guy. I mean, is the bear a Catholic?
"Hoisted on his own retard?"
oh, I amuse myself
Patrice got there before I did.
But what do you youngsters know about the Lone Ranger--or his dog Bullet, and his horse, Silver?
Wierd co-incidence--my wife has the same name as the lady with the right answer!
You really didn't expect him to get anything right about either guns or bullets, did you?
Maybe what we need is a quicksilver bullet...
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