Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site sunybcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!rochester!rocksvax!sunybcs!acsgjjp From: acsgjjp@sunybcs.UUCP (Jim Poltrone) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: inflationary language Message-ID: <1248@sunybcs.UUCP> Date: Tue, 20-Mar-84 17:27:35 EST Article-I.D.: sunybcs.1248 Posted: Tue Mar 20 17:27:35 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 23-Mar-84 07:08:48 EST Organization: SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science Lines: 21 [line 1 deducted for tax purposes] (and i thought an oxymoron was the one with the deep voice telling us about benzoyl peroxide (you know, those pimple commercials (oxy 5) ) ) I recall Victor Borge doing a sketch on "inflationary language" some time ago. (I'd put the words up here on the net, but let's not have another thermal explosion here with legalities, okay?) I can give you an example: I am a lieuelevanant in the United States Air Fivece. try to figure out how inflationary language is developed. "Your flames cannot harm me; my wings are like a shield of steel." ------ -- From the polyphonic, pitch-bending keyboard of nfqstuwxy; James J. Poltrone (a/k/a Poltr1) "The Last of the Raster Blasters" UUCP: {allegra,seismo}!rochester!rocksvax!sunybcs!acsgjjp ARPA, CSnet: acsgjjp.buffalo@rand-relay