A Butte of a Phrase

[Joel S. Berson]

At 2/4/2008 12:44 PM, Matthew Gordon wrote:
>no doubt a bilingually sly reference to their tendency to "table" matters
>rather than proceed to a vote?

This inference merits honorary (at least) membership in Mensa.

Joel

>On 2/4/08 11:39 AM, "Doug Harris" <cats22 at FRONTIERNET.NET> wrote:
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> > An editorial in today's NYT )"Partying On" includes
> > in the third paragraph a description of the House
> > Ethics Committee as "a committee that usually sits
> > mute as a mesa."
> > A butte of a phrase, one might say! (But you've gotta
> > wonder what the writer was meaning to convey.)
> > Googled, it shows up only once -- as cited above!
> >
> > (the other) doug
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