New Aphorism
Feb. 22nd, 2005 09:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gnomiLast night, mabfan and I had dinner with somehedgehog, which was wonderful. And during dinner, talk turned to the Great Molasses Flood and the book Dark Tide. The fact that, when it was pointed out to them that the tank was leaking molasses, the owners of the tank "solved" the problem by painting the tank brown came up. To which somehedgehog remarked that "painting the molasses tank brown" or, more simply, "painting the tank brown" sounded like a good description for actions that do little more than cover up a problem.
To which we all agreed that we'd try to adopt this into our regular vocabularies. An example would be a sentence like "The administration's Social Security plan does nothing more than paint the tank brown."
mabfan and I had dinner with somehedgehog, which was wonderful. And during dinner, talk turned to the Great Molasses Flood and the book Dark Tide. The fact that, when it was pointed out to them that the tank was leaking molasses, the owners of the tank "solved" the problem by painting the tank brown came up. To which somehedgehog remarked that "painting the molasses tank brown" or, more simply, "painting the tank brown" sounded like a good description for actions that do little more than cover up a problem.To which we all agreed that we'd try to adopt this into our regular vocabularies. An example would be a sentence like "The administration's Social Security plan does nothing more than paint the tank brown."
