Mangled Metaphor
Thursday, August 26, 2004The announcer on the CBC just blurted out the mother of all mixed metaphors while commentating on the Olympic triathlon:
Maybe he’s got another trick up his bag of cards
I tried searching for his name (to embarrass him fully) but no luck.
nate says:
That seems positively Zapp Brannigan-esque in its terrible-ness.
If we can hit that bull’s-eye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards… checkmate.
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Maddy says:
ahahaha. I love CBC radio because it’s not full of crap. But when they screw up it’s ten times more funny. =D
(random person who just found your blog. I googled the ghostbusters quote “Back off man, I’m a scientist.” and it came up.)
Territan says:
For my money, my own mother came up with the ultimate mixed metaphor, which blended so badly it created a whole new metaphor altogether, physical impossibility it may be:
Ryan says:
Re: Zapp Brannigan, BWAAAHAAAHA!!
I recently began collecting the Futurama DVD’s.
Ben says:
Most idiotic comment from a CBC announcer so far during the Olympics- “the trampoline is very bouncy.”
Zombie Claire says:
I haven’t heard anything on the CBC but GLOBAL NEWS TONIGHT had this teaser a month ago:
“COMING UP tonight...Why is Orillia so pretty? Is Orillia *too* nice? Find out why Orillia is so pretty, on GLOBAL NEWS TONIGHT.”
????
LOL.
BradFitzz says:
Heh… Finally some Olympic entertainment. I’d post a quote from Bob Costas but I think we’ve all heard too much of him already.
Sarah says:
Watching the women’s volleyball final on the CBC and the announcer says, “And for the second Olympics in a row, the Russians have been comed-back-against.”
The hyphens are mine, because really, how do you write that?
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