permatorium

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Sat May 12 23:07:58 UTC 2012


Slogan:
Where Your Permanent Is REALLY a Permanent

LH

On May 12, 2012, at 6:49 PM, victor steinbok wrote:

> I thought, it might be the place to get your very /last/ haircut.
>
> VS-)
>
> On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> permatorium:  A hair salon where one can get styled like Tom Brady.
>>
>> Joel
>>
>> At 5/12/2012 03:22 AM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
>>> From WaPo fact-checker:
>>>
>>> http://goo.gl/GKsFR
>>>> The president's opponents have accused him of stunting the economic
>>>> recovery with a barrage of harmful new regulations ranging from a
>>>> supposed "permatorium" on offshore oil drilling to stricter rules
>>>> aimed at reducing farm dust -- neither of which has actually taken
>>>> effect during Obama's term.
>>>
>>> The same context has seen the metaphorical use of "tsunami" by Rep.
>>> Issa. (as in "regulatory tsunami") It's not a singular incident, but
>>> it's still somewhat unusual.
>>>
>>> VS-)
>>
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