"Excuse me, how's the salmon this evening?"

[kpete]

Chrystal Clear:

Waiter: "The Department of Justice has issued an opinion stating that I'm not legally allowed to say that the salmon is rancid. I'm just saying that if it *wasn't* rancid, I would have said so. But I'm not saying that."

Link to tweet

[Xipe Totec]

1. the Salmon Mousse

[Pachamama]

2. Perfect.....

[cojoel]

3. Susan Collins line

Hey! I didn't even eat the mousse.

[progressoid]

4. That sad part is that a lot of Americans can't even follow that line of reasoning.

[SammyWinstonJack]

6. His Deplorables can't for sure. Can't or flat out wont.

[Hekate]

5. Mueller reminds ME of the nurses warning us off a particular surgeon when my MIL was in the hospital

They couldn't SAY that Doc So-and-so might have been okay in the military -- in his younger days -- but maybe was not the best guy to put a 90 y.o. lady under the knife in the here and now. No no, they could not SAY that, despite his being in a hurry to do it.

But they certainly managed to convey the message loud and clear. So we moved Ma home soon after that, and the next doc she saw was our family physician, and she did not have surgery.

[BarbD]

7. It all sounds like a Jesuitical statement.

So convoluted that your mind gets twisted and your eyes glaze over.