Wednesday, April 14, 2010

"Aren't all slopes slippery?" Uh.... nopery.

So i stumbled upon another writer's website, where she was apparently irked by the phrase "slippery slope." "Aren't all slopes, by definition, slippery?" she "wittily" asked.

ANSWER: No. They're not. They have an incline. And that's pretty much the extent of the definition. You could have a slope comprised of 80-grit sandpaper, coated with superglue and flypaper.

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