Motion to ban the phrase "Thrown Under The Bus"

[Mooney]

Please. I can't take it. I must have read this phrase in 200 posts tonight, from all manner of posters. This lemming-like lack of creativity must be destroyed.

I implore you, find some other term to express disappointment at a lifelong allegiance cast aside. We are Democrats! We're the smart party. Let the Republidoofuses hammer three or four talking points into powder.

Please muthafuckas!

[JeffR]

1. K & R

How about: tossed under the wheels of the internal-combustion mass conveyance? On second thought, never mind.

[better tomorrow]

7. it's late and I'm punchy, but I agree.....

[lligrd]

2. Under The Limousine With You

Any better? :rofl:

[donheld]

3. That phrase has been run into the ground.

[ecstatic]

4. lol. "Please muthafuckas???"

[bhikkhu]

5. How about an alternative, first.

It is such a useful and evocative phrase!

I can't think of any, at the moment.

[MADem]

6. Hey, that STRAIGHT TALK EXPRESS is a bus. I LIKE the term!

It's a nice change from "stuck a knife in his/her back and twisted it" or some of the more old-fashioned ways of expressing what happens when someone is trashed, dumped, abandoned, disavowed, rejected, refuted, betrayed or separated.

[napoleon_in_rags]

8. Alright, lets get to the bottom of this.

Thrown under the bus: An individual is sacrificed, put "under" a larger group of people who are going their way on the bus. The term talks about grinding an individual under the "wheels" of the majority. Alternatives???

Sacrificed to the ____ God
Crucified for the sins of the _____ people
Made to carry the piss bucket for all.
Cannibalized
made into sausage for the baseball game.

(Where __ represents the relevant "bus" majority)

Some piss poor attempts, but attempts all the same: You need an an alternative term for "thrown under the bus" because its meaning is pretty unique.

[ashling]

12. Tossed in the slop jar

drowned in the thunder mug :shrug:

:hurts:

[napoleon_in_rags]

14. Hey, I like it!

Unlike mine, it has a certain poetry to it. That's what we need around here, more poetry!!!

[ashling]

17. Poetic excrement

or just a lot of rhyming shit?
:shrug:

[Hoof Hearted]

9. Just as soon as Obama quits throwing grandmas, poets & Democratic champions under the bus,

sure!

[LTR]

10. While we're at it, ban the use of the word "Breaking" in all headlines

Especially when it's an opinion piece or an article that's three months old.

[napoleon_in_rags]

15. Waves and waves of bullshit breaking eternally on an ancient shore....

This thread is really making me think about the phrases we use...and I'm not sure I like it... ;)

[ashling]

11. I second ... and if its already been seconded, well

I second anyway! (you thought I was going to say "third", admit it.)
:)

[chknltl]

13. "Thrown under the bus" to be thrown under the bus?

Is that even possible? Wouldn't that be like one of those rocks God made that he has yet to figure out how to pick up? I'm still workin' out the details for shark hurdling and now this?

Ps: What do you have against my mutha??? That's it! That's it!!! Messin with my head is one thing but when you talk bad about my mutha... Thems fightin words!!! May the fleas of a brazillian camels find a home in the crease of your computer chair!

[Dumak]

16. here's another one

Ever since the phrase "in harm's way" appeared in a bush speech a couple of years ago, the MSM has been going crazy with it. Before the speech, I don't think I'd heard it in years.

I've even heard the word "internets" used in a serious context a few times.

[ashling]

18. Among other uses, it was a movie

with John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Carrol O'Conner,Patricia Neal, and a lot of other big names I can't remember.

[InsultComicDog]

19. ...

[ColbertWatcher]

20. Cheney'd him in the face n/t

[cooolandrew]

21. YES, the phrase does tend ot freak me out. Awful imagery. Just say sold out really.

[FARAFIELD]

22. I also like "Beat down"