Show threadbs2Mar 21, 2023
> Bush was doing his best to condemn #Putin. Instead, he scored a memorable own goal when he denounced “the decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq.” Reportedly, the audience chuckled. Oh #Dubya, always the fun side of armed aggression.
#Bushism #FunArmedAgression
Maybe #TheSpoo was suffering from too much #IllegitimateAuthority and felt bad about it, but Bush just seems to revel in it. Joking about looking for #WMD under his podium comes to mind.
bs2Mar 21, 2023
> "You have hissed all my mystery lectures," he reportedly said. "In fact, you have tasted two whole worms and you must leave Oxford this afternoon by the next town drain." A spoonerism can also involve the reversal of two words, as in "Courage to blow the bears of life," or, when saying good-bye to someone, "Must you stay, can't you go?"
https://www.npr.org/2007/09/01/14036334/breaking-down-the-uh-blunders-of-speech
#MetaPhasia #Spoonerism from #TheSpoo #MichaelErard #Humor from #Bushism #Bushist #FunArmedAgression
/HT @strypey