The oil story has gotten daily front page attention these past couple weeks. How long do you suppose Americans will continue to be interested? Another week? Till July? The beginning of the new fiscal year?
One of my gentle readers replied, "What oil spill? Did something go wrong on Hell's Kitchen?"
No, no, no, little bumpkin reader . . . but the spill was just down the street from there at a massage parlor . . . . Which I think is appropriate since the environment and the economy are getting screwed by the "spill."
Such a friendly, cute little word, "spill."
It would be different if we started referring to the environmental event as
an act of projectile petrochemical vomiting
a vertiginous eruption of crude
an unslakable spew of hydrocarbons
Now those descriptors would stay in people's heads a bit longer than SPILL
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