March 27, 2010 | Posted by Mark Taylor
Titanic once again makes an appearance in discussing budget woes. If you are going to use Titanic, please be sure to use the correct term. Titanic was a ship, not a boat! Assistant Superintendent Mark Hyatt likened the district’s budget challenges to the Titanic. “It’s not that the iceberg’s on the horizon, but there’s a [...]
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February 8, 2010 | Posted by Mark Taylor
Combining economics and Titanic is done frequently by columnists. A bank failure, crashing economy, badly run corporations are all compared to Titanic. Tom Plate, in an opinion piece appearing in The Jakarata Post, writes about how Toyota has fallen to Earth after years of being revered for its quality. Plate uses this to illustrate that [...]
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December 10, 2009 | Posted by Mark Taylor
I never knew that there was a coffee problem in Britain until I read Chloe Lambert’s article. She laments that British coffee was not up to snuff when compared to what you find elsewhere in the world. “I love my country. I love our sense of humour, our pubs, our theatre and I don’t even [...]
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December 3, 2009 | Posted by Mark Taylor
The Titanic Cliche is really popular these days when talking about the economy. Cenk Uygur over at the Huffington Post recently blogged about the renomination of Fed Chief Ben Bernanke. And once again RMS Titanic makes an appearance: “I had large misgivings about Ben Bernanke before his hearings began. He’s given credit for steering our [...]
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November 17, 2009 | Posted by Mark Taylor
“In remarks that sound faintly like what the first mate might have told the shocked captain of the Titanic, the secretary of housing and urban development, Shaun Donovan,tells the New York Times, ” We recognize there is a possibility that the reserves go below zero and stay there.” (WalletPop,FHA going broke? How to qualify for [...]
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July 17, 2009 | Posted by Mark Taylor
“It’s like throwing a raft out to the Titanic.” (17 Jul 09, Schools Fix Has Plenty Of Doubters, Columbus Dispatch)
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June 12, 2009 | Posted by Mark Taylor
One feature I have thought about adding to my news site was citing examples of Titanic cliches. They have become so common and overwrought as to become satires on the person saying them without it being intentional on their part. I had thought about starting a weekly column over at my news site but I [...]
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