THOUGHT
Score: 7 / 10 
Mortal Coil
Some euphemisms I love. 'Batting on a sticky wicket', for example. I love that. And then there are euphemisms that just don't work. The worst of these is, undoubtedly, 'he's shuffled off this mortal coil'. For one thing, if it's a woman who has died, it's plainly pronoun-inaccurate. For another, even if it's a man, can I just point out two words for y'all to ponder more carefully: 'shuffled' and 'coil'. You shouldn't shuffle off mortal coils. You should 'spring', dammit!
Funeral directors, serial killers and obituary columnists, let's sort this out, huh?
Next Thought
Taxis or Picasso or back to full list
blog comments powered by Disqus
This here item has so far scored 7 / 10 on the patented Astonishing Tales Funny-o-meter.
If it should be higher, click the green arrow:
And if you think it should be lower, try the red one:
To receive this kind of stuff via a convenient regular email, visit the subscription page
Or don't. I'm not the boss of you.
