Thursday, March 6, 2008
News / News Bites Flu season
Posted by Michael Miner on Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 1:49 PM
Nothing to do but ride it out until the fever breaks...
"No Country for Rude Girls," Entertainment Weekly
"No country for grouchy old white men," Denver Post
"No Country for Old Dictators," Slate
"No country for income tax hikes," saukvalley.com
"In Rural Ohio, It's No Country for Democrats," Washington Post
"There will be blood if Kenya stays no country for Luo men," Seattle Times
"No Country for Old Broadcasters," Pitch Weekly
"No Country for Old Maids," Pensions & Investments
"No country for old jerseys," Globe and Mail
"No country for businessmen," Ha'aretz
"No Country for Mark Penn," TheAtlantic.com
"No Country for Old Bigots." Yahoo! News
"No Country for Amy Winehouse," TheCelebrityCafe.com
"No country for lumpy thighs," Chicago Tribune
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I bet you could chart the usage of the "No Country" construction and the "There Will Be" construction and get some interesting pre- and post-Oscar numbers. But I do have to tip my hat to "No Country for Mark Penn." If something's worth doing, it's worth doing right.
Google Zeitgeist (excluding the actual movie titles): http://www.google.com/trends?q=%22There+will+be%22+-%22There+will+be+blood%22%2C+%22No+country+for%22+-%22No+Country+for+Old+Men%22+&ctab=0&geo=all&geor=all&date=ytd&sort=1
Dunl... so why did "There will be..." start showing up on the chart as early as April of 2007?
As clever as No Country for Mark Penn is", "No Country for Lumpy thighs" is in inverse proportion in cleverness. WTF? and ""There will be blood if Kenya stays no country for Luo men" is just trying too damned hard.
No Tolerance for No Country Survey says: Lame Another over-used word I've noticed a lot lately, most recently in a CJ police blotter, is "decidedly" I forget the context, but it was decidedly overkill
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