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Date: 13 October 2003 20:55:58
Now here's a thing. I found this quote the other day:
He writes the worst English that I have ever encountered. It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it reminds me of tattered washing on the line; it reminds me of stale bean soup, of college yells, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights. It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it. It drags itself out of the dark abysm of pish and crawls insanely up the topmost pinnacle of posh. It is rumble and bumble. It is flap and doodle. It is balder and dash.”
H.L. Mencken (1880-1956), American journalist and critic, on Warren G. Harding (1865-1923), American president.
Is it just me or does this sound an awful lot like another President with a consonant for a middle name with whom we are all too familiar?