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"Wall Street got drunk" and other pithy phrases for global crises
By John Hockenberry, Sitara Nieves, Katherine Lanpher
July 25, 2008, 05:29 PM
President Bush summed up America's recent economic woes this week with four cool words: "Wall Street got drunk." The Takeaway asked you for more catchy crisis slogans.
"Guess they didn’t want the cake." — Takeaway Culture Critic Mary Elizabeth Williams on the French Revolution.
"Oil, suburbs and Hummers, oh my." — Baratunde Thurston, New York City
"South Carolina's politicians? So. Not. Gay." — Ian Johnson, Out Now
"Meteors and dinosaurs don’t mix." — Dominic DePinto
"Honeybees leave, but they never return." — Kim Flottum, Bee Culture magazine, in Medina, Ohio, on Colony Collapse Disorder
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