Rocket Surgeons?
Tonight on the news, state Senator Stacey Campfield of Tennesee mixed his metaphors remarkably when he said, ‘We aren’t asking the kid to be a rocket surgeon, we are just asking . . . .” He failed to make the choice between rocket scientists and brain surgeons quickly enough. Senator Campfield was defending his bill to tie a family’s welfare payments to the grades its children make in school.
February 28th, 2013 at 4:00 pm
I’ve heard this used in the past, in cases where it was clearly a self-deprecation, the user joking that he/she couldn’t handle either rocket science or brain surgery, and, what the heck, couldn’t tell the difference.