Did You Hear the One About Coolidge and the Farmer’s Wife?
Thursday, October 6, 2005 at 06:05PM
Figaro

jabba.jpgQuote: "We're learning more and more about Tom Delay ... He was nicknamed 'Hot Tub Tom,' got kicked out of Baylor for drinking and ... became a wild party animal who drank 10 martinis a night, or as they call it in Washington, a Kennedy."  Jay Leno.

Figure of Speech:  ampliatio (am plee OT ee oh), the worn-out label.

Enough with the Kennedy jokes, at least until the fourth generation is old enough to drink. Poor bloated Teddy probably isn't spending much time in a hot tub these days; and it probably wouldn't be big enough for company.  So we find Leno guilty of an ampliatio, continuing to use a name that's long out of date.

Snappy Answer:  "I thought they called it a Bush."

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