From the comments on a news report about, well, it pretty much doesn’t matter what it’s about because it’s election season on the internet and any mention of candidate x in any context that involves a comment box means that it’s now about commenter y’s feelings about candidate x, but, yes, I digress. Let me start over.
From a comment on an election-related news report:
The only real change Obama supports is his mind on everything…first he was for higher taxes, then he wasn’t….
The thrust is clear: “Obama changes his mind.” The execution, though, is like something out of The Simpsons: a formulation so awkward that it’s comical. The difference being that Groening’s writing staff is doing it on purpose.
And as usual when it comes to snark, the NY POST does it better.
It should have been “of his mind”… grammatically, at least.
Heh. I like the “of” variant, yeah. It’s still tremendously awkward, but feels more knowingly so—someone wending their way stubbornly down a path rather than, say, stumbling and rolling down a hill.
Zeugma!
Gesundheit!