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Posted by: Skip Trace
« on: June 28, 2022, 08:09:52 pm »

The sports pages (or webpages) are still a reliable source of such imagery. Teams continue to get taken to the woodshed, while player interviews talk about getting butts beat or whipped. Across the pond, both football teams and the football itself are frequently "spanked."

Sometimes it gets more personal, as when a columnist went after a young Kyle Busch (NASCAR driver) in 2008: "When I make mistakes, certain people have to pay for them," Busch said, "and unfortunately today, the 88, they have to pay for it." The unfortunate part is that while most of us learned sometime between "Green Eggs and Ham" and "The Great Gatsby" that we can't always do whatever we want, Busch has yet to figure that out. When you're 12, this sort of comment gets you a spanking and a one-way trip to your room. But when you're 23, and the repercussions of your mistakes put other people's jobs in jeopardy, it means you're an ass.

https://news.yahoo.com/kyle-buschs-risky-move-boost-043300603--nascar.html?guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAACFL6BsV-K8agOvnJsE8tod_s-lXHHCdsEUMgXIaUzc_7AfzRqMnKi3vdYMAdu_80kb3w9DSanJyfnxae_Mlj4OCJL2ek0ZzUIiWe727oUPef3L-kXklNs8KRfJo3ANZ0IORiZeKVWbbmRJPJOGQQWqrKX0vLJDINxT7zdHwpwN6
Posted by: David M. Katz
« on: June 28, 2022, 07:36:55 pm »

Hear, hear!
Posted by: Kat
« on: June 28, 2022, 05:44:21 pm »

I'm so sick of headlines about how one politician "slammed" another. Occasionally, someone gets "roasted" or some other violent verb, but they usually get slammed.

If editors have to use hyperbolic verbs, why not pander to us spankos and say X "spanked" Y. I remember in the 1980s, there was a headline about Reagan taking one of his advisers or cabinet members to the woodshed. (David Stockman, maybe?) Anyway, that was the sort of headline I liked. It was so... evocative. :D

Instead of slamming people, let's spank them, take them to the woodshed, give them a good old-fashioned whipping, paddle their butts, tan their hides, etc. Let's pull their pants down, bare their backsides, and apply the board of correction to the seat of learning. Sure, most of these politicians' bottoms aren't the material of spanko dreams. Nevertheless, the headline could give a thrill before we find out who had to bend over and grab his ankles.

Kat