Monday, May 31, 2010

Gulf oil spill?


Can we please stop referring to this tragic unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico as a spill? If I’m carrying a glass of milk in my hand and I trip, that’s a spill. If a tanker in Alaska ruptures and dumps all its oil in the water that’s a spill. This is an oil hemorrhage of the first order worthy of its own name, as they do with hurricanes. I suggest calling it David for Deepwater Avoidable Volcanic Industrial Disaster.

3 comments:

Ben Leet said...

Hi Brian. Let's call it an "oops". a major ooops, the twelve million gallon slimey-oops, gulf oil poop, B P sea smear, the BP lochness oil monster, the poop from below. My favorite off-the -top is the Elmer Gantry. We will have no shortage of time to think of a real good one, the Sarah Palin Holy-Moly slip of the tongue. I must be tired, I usually can find something. About those Cuber boxes, --- no, Murray. You alone exist says
"You are insects. You are lice. You are dogs, asses and pigs. You alone exist." As if you did not know already. I just got back from Meherana, and I have to grab a bit of rest. Barbara Roberts did an imitation of Steve B., swami Beyond-And-anda. Pretty funny. Bhau slated for release from hospital soon. Jai Baba.

Ben Leet said...

Hi Brian. Let's call it an "oops". a major ooops, the twelve million gallon slimey-oops, gulf oil poop, B P sea smear, the BP lochness oil monster, the poop from below. My favorite off-the -top is the Elmer Gantry. We will have no shortage of time to think of a real good one, the Sarah Palin Holy-Moly slip of the tongue. I must be tired, I usually can find something. About those Cuber boxes, --- no, Murray. You alone exist says
"You are insects. You are lice. You are dogs, asses and pigs. You alone exist." As if you did not know already. I just got back from Meherana, and I have to grab a bit of rest. Barbara Roberts did an imitation of Steve B., swami Beyond-And-anda. Pretty funny. Bhau slated for release from hospital soon. Jai Baba.

Ben Leet said...

Brian, maybe the same Chinese woman is commenting here who often sends a comments to my blog -- ?? Now I make my third comment, so I am really pestering your comment gallery. The first was very creative, the second a bit repetitious, and now a short comment:
not "spill", "gusher". I could not sleep until I got that right. Gulf oil gusher. ?? Gog. The goofy goop from GOG.