Re: guilty smile
- From: Peter Duncanson <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:30:35 +0100
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:17:15 GMT, Bob Cunningham <exw6sxq@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>
>I guess it's sinful to find any humor at all in the calamity
>that has struck the Gulf Coast, but I couldn't help a wee
>smile when I heard a senator from Louisiana say on the telly
>that the situation in New Orleans was fluid.
Here's another one in which the figurative collides with the literal,
which has the added 'bonus' of an incongruity of scale:
<quote from ABCNews website>
By LIBBY QUAID Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON Aug 31, 2005 — Hurricane Katrina interrupted farm shipments
through New Orleans, where more than half of the nation's grain exports
depart for overseas.
It's too early to know the damage to shipping terminals or other
facilities, government and industry officials said.
"It'll probably be a ripple effect," said Paul Rohde, president of MARC
2000, a St. Louis-based shippers' coalition.
</quote>
--
Peter Duncanson
UK (posting from a.u.e)
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