Ben on the Radio (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Ben Zimmer]

On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:
>
> I was expecting to hear "dark horse candidate" in there somewhere -- did
> I miss that?

There were plenty of horse-racing metaphors I could've thrown in
there, but I was focusing more on games of chance.

--bgz


>> From: Ben Zimmer
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
>> <Bill.Mullins at us.army.mil> wrote:
>> >
>> > Anyone else hear Ben Zimmer on NPR yesterday, talking about gambling
>> > metaphors in the run up to the election?
>>
>> It was on Marketplace:
>>
>>
> http://www.marketplace.org/topics/elections/campaign-trail/president-betting-man
>>
>> They cut out the part where I talked about the current prevalence of
>> the "doubling down" metaphor from blackjack.

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