This post is just a fun one — nothing serious. I am over in Japan right now, up at a really, really early hour from jet lag and had a humorous exchange I want to share.
A Time Magazine friend of mine suggested we meet up for drinks and catch up. Just fyi, he wrote this great piece on a barbecue he went to at Mark Foley’s. . .
My colleague at the New America Foundation Sameer Lalwani tried to line up dates and times for drinks — but he called it “putting hurt on the corn”.
I really thought in this era of Foleyisms that he had just sent a prominent Time journalist an inappropriate and potentially pornographic message.
But I was wrong it seems, my friend Barry Lynn — author of End of the Line: The Rise and Coming Fall of the Global Corporation and this interesting piece, “Breaking the Chain: The Anti-Trust Case Against Wal-Mart” in Harpers seems to be good with re-crafting words and launching them to start new catch phrases.
Here is how Sameer defines Barry Lynn’s “Putting Hurt on the Corn”:
Steve:
It’s a barry lynn phrase —
“putting hurt” — to deal with soundly and effectively
“On” — a preposition, difficult to define
“The corn” — going out on a limb here but a — dare I say — southern expression for grain alcohol, perhaps distilled by rubes on their local premises
I’m beginning to understand a bit of how cockney developed now.
More later from Tokyo.
— Steve Clemons
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