Best of all is its Cockney-rhyming-slang connotation:

He’s a patriot, but the timestamp will tell us if he’s a minuteman.

Haha, remember those insipid Subaru commercials?

Ay, he was Spinal Tap’s original drummer! And I always thought he died in a “bizarre gardening accident.”

Rapist sez wot?

“John Havens, Citigroup Inc.’s former president and chief operating officer, and John Childs, a buyout-firm pioneer, also were ensnared in prostitution charges Friday.”

Here in Montreal, weed got better in quality and cheaper with legalization — taxes and all. Illegal retail dealers are getting scarce. Not saying this analogy would transfer directly to sex work, but this is my experience here.

Bullshit. If dogs had thumbs they’d still lick their balls all day. Y’all know why...

This must be what they did with all those unsold sugar-free Haribos.

The GOP has never “actually meant it” re: fiscal responsibility for as far as I can remember, and I was born during the JFK administration. ‘Twas always code for screwing the poor...

In a just world, Walter Sobchak would deliver the unofficial response.

I’ve never really been a fan, but that reply was a thing of beauty. Respect, AG.

So “halo” is a fucking verb now?

Harris/Muntz 2020 !!

Yep, a regular “Reader’s Digest.”

Yes, and I predict a similar first term from AOC despite the haters.

Eat shit. Good day.

To take this in another direction:

My point is that she’s going to be irrationally attacked just for being who she is; she knows this, and also knows that her best defense is to just be more mature and evolved than the reactionaries attacking her. Do you understand how metaphors work?

As an American living the ex-pat dream in Montreal, I’ve been calling for a Northern wall since Election Day 2016, in addition to proposing marriage to random Canadian women on a daily basis.