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| The zinger: pass notes No 3,269 | The zinger: pass notes No 3,269 |
| (30 days later) | |
| Age: As old as politics. | Age: As old as politics. |
| Appearance: Fascinating – if your idea of a good time is watching every second of the US presidential debates. In which case, hello! If you don't find much to your taste here, take a look around the rest of the site. | Appearance: Fascinating – if your idea of a good time is watching every second of the US presidential debates. In which case, hello! If you don't find much to your taste here, take a look around the rest of the site. |
| Call me psychic, but I'm getting the impression this doesn't have anything to do with spicy chicken burgers. Definitely not. It's about those snappy rejoinders that get American commentators so excited. | Call me psychic, but I'm getting the impression this doesn't have anything to do with spicy chicken burgers. Definitely not. It's about those snappy rejoinders that get American commentators so excited. |
| Awwwww! I've been looking around the KFC website. "Picture a disco mirrorball hanging from the roof of your mouth and instead of light, it's taste bouncing around your mouth like a tingle wave… That's what the Zinger Burger tastes like," apparently. Apparently… and irrelevantly. | Awwwww! I've been looking around the KFC website. "Picture a disco mirrorball hanging from the roof of your mouth and instead of light, it's taste bouncing around your mouth like a tingle wave… That's what the Zinger Burger tastes like," apparently. Apparently… and irrelevantly. |
| All right then. Tell us about this boring political stuff. Before his debates with Mitt Romney, Barack Obama fretted that the media would focus on "the best zingers" rather than "the best discussion". And so it has proved, with the president widely being accused of being too professorial in the early … | All right then. Tell us about this boring political stuff. Before his debates with Mitt Romney, Barack Obama fretted that the media would focus on "the best zingers" rather than "the best discussion". And so it has proved, with the president widely being accused of being too professorial in the early … |
| Mmmm? Wake up! And put that pillow away. | Mmmm? Wake up! And put that pillow away. |
| I was just resting my eyes. Earlier this week, ahead of the final debate, the satirical website the Onion described how the Republicans' "microbiologists, chemists and physicists" were working on a doomsday zinger that "could eradicate the entire Obama campaign in .03 seconds". | I was just resting my eyes. Earlier this week, ahead of the final debate, the satirical website the Onion described how the Republicans' "microbiologists, chemists and physicists" were working on a doomsday zinger that "could eradicate the entire Obama campaign in .03 seconds". |
| And is that how it turned out? If anything, Obama appears to have won the war of the zingers. On Monday, after Romney complained that the US navy is smaller than it has been been since 1917, the President hit back that Romney doesn't understand the modern military. The US also has "fewer horses and bayonets" than it did in 1917! | And is that how it turned out? If anything, Obama appears to have won the war of the zingers. On Monday, after Romney complained that the US navy is smaller than it has been been since 1917, the President hit back that Romney doesn't understand the modern military. The US also has "fewer horses and bayonets" than it did in 1917! |
| Take that! Mitt must have been devastated. There's more! "We have these things called aircraft carriers," Obama continued. "We have these ships that go underwater – nuclear submarines!" | Take that! Mitt must have been devastated. There's more! "We have these things called aircraft carriers," Obama continued. "We have these ships that go underwater – nuclear submarines!" |
| Kapow! Once more, Romney is made to seem out of touch with reality. So this is the end of his presidential hopes? You haven't got a clue about political analysis, have you? | Kapow! Once more, Romney is made to seem out of touch with reality. So this is the end of his presidential hopes? You haven't got a clue about political analysis, have you? |
| Of course not. If that was the case we'd be talking about a knockout punch. | Of course not. If that was the case we'd be talking about a knockout punch. |
| Do say: "That must hurt!" | Do say: "That must hurt!" |
| Don't say: "This is just painful." | Don't say: "This is just painful." |
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