A few weeks I was talking politics with Optimo and I was greeted with the following response, “Yeah, and if my grandmother had balls she would be my grandfather.”
Watching Chris Matthews and Meet the Press today I was surprised how many times that would have been essentially been a appropriate response to the question asked of the talking heads. I’d like to blame Hillary Clinton’s success at introducing her campaign’s narratives into the talking head circuit, but it really goes way beyond that. Iraq and the prospect of “victory” is main cause of this type of nonsense. Seriously is there is any sense in saying, “if Hillary Clinton gets 65% of the remaining delegates” or, “if victory in Iraq is achieved”.
At the end of the day that the operation aspect of Ball-Grandmother Equations isn’t that grandmothers don’t have balls, but also that nobody is under the impression that they in fact have balls, or maybe that there is some probative value in discussing what it would mean if grandmothers had balls.
If people were constantly asking about the prospects your grandmother growing a pair, then the expression would be have a whole different meaning, right?
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