[MadIvan]

Richard Gere is being recognised for his inability to have a coherent thought. The man deserves no less. Though the gerbils may feel differently. ;)

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Bump!

[Saundra Duffy]

LOL!! By the way, where was PETA when this creep had a little live critter stuck up his butt?! Huh?!

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Hold muh gerbil alert!!

[Desdemona]

Richard Gere a gerbil? You know, there are some mighty big pythons out there who get hungry from time to time....

[RooRoobird14]

Gere won the 2002 award after telling a Sunday newspaper: "I know who I am. No one else knows who I am. If I was a giraffe and somebody said I was a snake, I'd think 'No, actually I am a giraffe.''

Funny, I always thought he was a gerbil - Ivan

LOL, as always MadIvan, you wield a wickedly funny pen. I'm still LOLOLOLING about the gerbil (I'd almost forgotten about that....)

[Hugin]

My all time favorite bureaucratic euphamism came from the National Transportation Safety Administration, "unplanned interface with the terrain", a.k.a. a plane crash.

[TheBigB]

And yet he was able to sleep with this for several years...

[aruanan]

The Scottish Parliament's winning effort is taken from Paragraph 59 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act (2002), Part 5. It reads: "The Scottish Ministers may by order amend subsection (1) of section 57 or paragraph (a) or (b) of subsection (2) of section 58 so as to substitute for the number of years for the time being mentioned in the provision in question such other number of years (not being a number which exceeds that being mentioned in the provision as originally enacted) as may be specified in the order."

What's so unintelligible about this? It's clear and specific. If you want to see real examples of writing that appears to mean something but means nothing or means something other than what the writer intended, read The Graves of Academe, or Less than Words Can Say, or The Leaning Tower of Babel by Richard Mitchell.

[Happygal]

ARMAGEDDON!!!!!!

[eleni121]

Amazing isn't it how a numbskull, barely good looking fudge like Gere can become a major player in the movies.

[Junior]

It all comes from teachers requiring students to write for word count, rather than content. I can't think of a greater incentive to pad writing.

[Delbert]

I have a question Ivan, is that Richard Gere / gerbil thing just an urban legend? However..I usually adhere to the "wheres theres smoke, theres fire" mentality. But this is very strange, but it certainly has persisted for over 10 years now. poor little gerbil.

[cubreporter]

I always thought he was over rated! I was right.

[cubreporter]

I always thought he was over rated! I was right.

[xJones]

Gere won the 2002 award after telling a Sunday newspaper: "I know who I am. No one else knows who I am. If I was a giraffe and somebody said I was a snake, I'd think 'No, actually I am a giraffe.''

Let's hope nobody ever tells him he's a gerbil.

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