Clearly a term whose time has come!
Doug
On 2012-02-07, at 5:28 AM, Barry Alpert wrote:
> As in, "Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, & Rick Santorum are full of schlimmbesserung." Forthcoming in The Onion.
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> Barry
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> On Tue, 7 Feb 2012 07:08:57 +0000, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Wunderbar! It ought to be stamped on politicians' foreheads.
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>> On 7 February 2012 05:07, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>> schlimmbesserung � a so-called improvement that makes things worse
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>> David Joseph Bircumshaw
>> "The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is
>> that none of it has tried to contact us."
>> - Calvin & Hobbes
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