Good ones

[bixaorellana]

Here's a thread for snippets you come across in your general reading --
funny, pithy, well-crafted, clever, etc.

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Found this jewel in The Guardian. It's from a review by Barbara Ellen panning the new movie Diana:

                      ... some are still claiming that she was murdered, possibly
                              during the fake moon landings or near a grassy knoll ...

[bixaorellana]

"Light bulbs are the kudzu of Las Vegas."

A Way to See the World, by Thomas Swick

[breeze]

I just listened to a podcast on cave art, and one of the experts referred to aurochs, horses, and deer as "the lawnmowers of the pleistocene."

[bixaorellana]

Ha ~ love it! And surely grass was bigger & more rampant back then. But then no one had to worry about being reported to the home owners' association if the livestock wasn't keeping up with the job.

[Kimby]

Not a whole sentence, but an apt phrase: “hoofed locusts”.

I heard Ed Abbey say it during a lecture at the University of Montana (referring to cattle grazing on public lands) but he didn’t invent it.

From Smithsonian magazine: “In June 1869, Muir signed on as a shepherd to take a flock of 2,000 sheep to Tuolumne Meadows in the High Sierra, an adventure he later recounted in one of his most appealing books, My First Summer in the Sierra. Muir came to despise his "hoofed locusts" for tearing up the grass and devouring wildflowers.“