Saturday, October 3, 2009

No nude asses

The title "Some New Taxes" provides an antithesis to old George H. W. Bush’s statement, “Read my lips! No new taxes!”

The funny thing is that the consonant T is just the unvoiced version of the consonant D, with no lip involvement, and the unvoiced plosive K (in X) doesn’t involve the lips, either. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_%28phonetics%29

So look in the mirror and read your lips as you say “No new taxes!” and “No nude asses!” What would Freud say?

1 comment:

  1. It was a warning for after his son took office "Know new taxes." The man was prescient. He knew we would have a VAT. Too bad we did not see the transcript but only heard what he said.

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