One of Metafilter’s better conversational point-makers, a fellow who guys by bugbread, may have coined a phrase today, in a discussion about (in part) the ethics of deploying despicable rhetoric in a rebuke of a despicable rhetoritician:

If someone said “Ann Coulter is as stupid as bugbread”, I’d be offended. Not because somebody’s insulting Ann Coulter. Go to it. But because I’m getting hit by the insult shrapnel.”

Insult shrapnel! A fun turn of phrase, and evocative. Right now, it generates three google hits, one of which looks like spammish regurgitation of one of the others. So clearly not in common practice.

So this post has two purposes. One: boost bugbread’s usage. Two: see what gets more Google respect: an keyword-titled post to my blog, or the content of a sprawling Metatalk thread. I have a feeling that Metatalk will win.