"mass murder on an unimaginable scale."

[deminks]

Interesting turn of phrase that has appeared in all of the news stories this morning.


Kinda reminds me of:

"We are talkin Old testament, I mean REAL wrath of God stuff! 40 years of torment, earthquakes, tidal waves! The Dead Rising from the grave!! World Destruction, Human Sacrifices, Dogs and Cats living together....Mass Hysteria!!! "

Ghostbusters, 1984.

I can just hear Roverboy salivating.

[lectrobyte]

1. Unimaginable? I can imagine World War II, so I wonder what

scale of murder they are thinking of. Perhaps a mangled quote is in order: Unimaginable? I wish they would quit using that word, it is does not mean what they think it means.

[LunaSea]

8. Hell, I can imagine the earth cracking open..

and giant bats flying out.
But I'm just like that.

Remember all caps when you say such things...MASS MURDER ON AN UNIMAG....blah,blah.
Bet that's how it looks on the prompters.

[_testify_]

9. You killed my father.

Prepare to die!

[Xenotime]

10. I can imagine 3000 americans dying in massive airplane attacks...

oh wait that already happened.

[Smarmie Doofus]

2. This stuff is very, very serious. (That's *two* 'verys' !) nt

[elehhhhna]

11. yep. almost SUPERSERIOUS.

[woodsprite]

3. That's also what's happening in Iraq. n/t

[wicket]

4. One of my favorite movie quotes of all time!

:rofl:

[leveymg]

5. Cheeze-itz, does that mean we have another 18 years of this crap?

[alcibiades_mystery]

6. Adorno once said that there can be no poetry after Auschwitz

I'm guessing that there can be no "unimaginable" scale for mass murder after Auschwitz as well.

The news writers throw in nonsensical adjectives of this kind for effect, sensation. They make no sense, and certainly don't correspond to the world in any way.

[C_U_L8R]

7. Do they mean more than Iraq ?

[elehhhhna]

12. oops. Thought that headline ref'd the Gov't Katrina "response".

[malaise]

13. Question

Didn't Bushco and Blair already murder over 100, 000 Iraqis. Isn't that the planet's most recent example of 'unimaginable mass murder'?

[nancyr]

14. Gravely concerned!

Yikes....I am scared.