Baffled Gabbing
But for the grace of God, as the saying goes. And that’s foremost in my mind with regard to the annual Bafflegab awards.
A group in Britain called The Plain English Campaign compiles the dumbest things people have said over the past year and ranks them accordingly.
The Bafflegab winner: the former manager of England’s national soccer team, with this gem about star player Wayne Rooney: “He’s inexperienced but he’s experienced in terms of what he’s been through.”
U.S. President Bush, who spouts a noteworthy sentence every other day it seems, came in second for 2007 for saying, about California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, “All I can tell you is that when the Governor calls, I answer his phone.”
And while the awards are given for unnecessarily complicated speaking and writing I happened to offer my own bit of bafflegab on the air in an unintentional tribute this morning that caused quite a bit of giggling among my colleagues.
The U of T has been named the most Vegetarian Friendly School in the country. But out of my lips, it became the most Vegetarian Friendly Stool!
No one’s perfect!