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As the century draws to a close, "hottest summer" records are being broken left and right, making it harder and harder to pooh-pooh evidence that greenhouse gasses are warming the planet.
Next time, instead of hiring two bored journalists to pooh-pooh feminists, how about one bored journalist and one person who actually believes that equality for women is a meaningful concept.
According to the great Danish linguist, Otto Jespersen, there are five theories to account for the origin of language: the bow-wow theory, in which speech imitated animal calls; the pooh-pooh theory, in which people made instinctive sounds through physical or emotional reactions; the dingdong theory, in which people reacted to the environment; the yo-he-ho theory, in which people spoke when working together; and the la-la theory, in which speech arose from the romantic side of life.
I have also read an equal number of disclaimers that pooh-pooh (as it were) the idea of such a named person ever having had anything to do with the creation of this necessary convenience (unorthodoxymoron).
He said the "strategic community" on both sides of the Atlantic may have been wrong in relying on historical precedent to pooh-pooh the idea of victory by air power alone.