Saturday, August 05, 2006

Pink elephants on parade

When he endorsed Lieberman, Bill Clinton referred to the Iraq war as the "pink elephant in the living room." Now there's a poetic malapropism. A pink elephant is visible only to those deep in a delirium.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Ah, Bill. Eloquent as always.

Anonymous said...

Isn't a pink elephant's trunk remarkably similar to the Clenis? Which we know, of course, is the root of all troubles in the world today.