A gaffe usually has a sharp hook at the end for grabbing a fish by the gills and lifting it into the boat.

Even better mental image.

Ouch. That was cold, dood.

Why work so hard? I say we just simplify and go with “fucking lie.”

But we *did* give the English language the word feckless. Also “mooncalf” and “blethers”, but “lacking a sufficiency of feck” is pretty much the fReichtard default state.

Furthermore, whenever I read the word “gaffe” used as a verb, I think about what happens to a fish once the angler reels it in. Since the same word is used for the blunt instrument used by said angler, this gives me the happy image of someone like CY being thumped on the skull with a club, which would certainly explain his reasoning skills.

CY is aware of all gaffe-related traditions.

Re: gaffe
Wingnuts may not be so keen on using it if they knew its origin. French, of course, more specifically and embarrassingly, Provençal. You know, Southern France, the Mediterranean part.

That is precisely why it is an appropriate word to apply to a eurodhimmified latte-sipping urbanite (like “faux pas”), whereas any hypothetical mistakes on McCain’s part could only be described by an honest word of simple Anglo-Scottish origins.
But there aren’t any. Anglo-Scottish culture does not even recognise the concept of a ‘gaffe’.

Of course, this is the guy who lapped so eagerly at the Preznit’s ballsack when a useful tool was needed to justify unlimited detention and torture powers. The guy whose every justification and interpretation of law has since been reversed after being exposed to a little healthy sunshine. The guy who was a willing accomplice to one of the biggest power grabs in U.S. history, only by the faction he supports. The guy who has scuttled off to a professorial sinecure at Berkeley.

Yeah, fuck Yoo sideways with a rusty chainsaw.

Wow, it looks like someone went to Colonel Rodeo Rick’s War College N’ Rib Shack.

That “terrorists” or “insurgents” or “other people” “use” asymmetrical warfare is a reaction to a military response and superior military force seems to matter not. I, for one, would love to see an asymmetrical-style offensive.

A terrorist attack is not “asymmetrical warfare”. It has a different goal.

Of course, that it was first produced as satire, is, I’m sure, central to his point.

Uh-oh, John McCain is trying to use the tubes again!