Headline of the Year?
Well, this headline (I'll get to it, hold yer horses) should win an award of some sort t'other for sheer delightful and utter incomprehension, at least by those of us in the colonies.
Professionally I have been following the court investigations into some of the goings on of Hollinger International -- the baby of Lord Black of Crossharbour, or as he's now more commonly known as his fortune dwindles, Mr. Barbara Amiel, who continues to be known as "that bitch."
In any event, because of my distant involvement I reviewed a news clipping earlier in the year from the UK's Independent on Sunday, which was emblazoned with the following headline:
Lord Black cocks a snook at Canadian "kleptocracy" probe
Feeling decidedly Canadian when reading that I dispatched immediately, by email, to a colleague in good ol' London, a request for his translation. A response never arrived (although a CCed colleague in New York did join in also seeking clarity on the matter), so I'm left witless still in regards to cocking snooks, or cock snooking, or...
My first inclination is to picture a robust Thai fighting rooster set go on a character from Dr. Seuss?
I'd rather like to have someone cock a snook at me someday. I think... I know I'd happily reciprocate by probing them enthusiastically with my thick and powerful kleptocracy.
steve
Professionally I have been following the court investigations into some of the goings on of Hollinger International -- the baby of Lord Black of Crossharbour, or as he's now more commonly known as his fortune dwindles, Mr. Barbara Amiel, who continues to be known as "that bitch."
In any event, because of my distant involvement I reviewed a news clipping earlier in the year from the UK's Independent on Sunday, which was emblazoned with the following headline:
Lord Black cocks a snook at Canadian "kleptocracy" probe
Feeling decidedly Canadian when reading that I dispatched immediately, by email, to a colleague in good ol' London, a request for his translation. A response never arrived (although a CCed colleague in New York did join in also seeking clarity on the matter), so I'm left witless still in regards to cocking snooks, or cock snooking, or...
My first inclination is to picture a robust Thai fighting rooster set go on a character from Dr. Seuss?
I'd rather like to have someone cock a snook at me someday. I think... I know I'd happily reciprocate by probing them enthusiastically with my thick and powerful kleptocracy.
steve
posted by Heipel at
3:45 PM
2 Comments:
i really like your bolg's ending alway...ha..so sarcastic..ha
my vote for the best line by a government official.when asked to comment on the chances of Canada being part of the Missile defence thing, one insider said: "It's a firm 'no', I'm not sure it's an indefinite 'no'. "
what does that even mean?????
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