Thursday, February 16, 2023

Westley, what about the A.L.S.W.'s?


These code-words are fun sometimes, but the meaning behind them is pretty grim -- and I think the odds are better than even that Bruce is right here.

It's getting kind of ridiculous how many things need to be coded, though. You have to be careful how you talk about even so general a concept as vexillological dissimulation, lest you be flagged as one of those perfidious connivance conjecturers.

1 comment:

Wm Jas Tychonievich said...

I just noticed that Bruce’s post uses the expression “frying-pan to fire swap.” That wording must have subconsciously influenced me to think of the R.O.U.S.’s of the Fire Swamp.

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