Or: News from the Holy Press.
Overheard lately in London during a recent economic summit. George Dubya as an aside to Tony Blair: "The problem with the French is that they don't have a word for 'entrepreneur'"...
I am not making this up.
And since we're talking style here, a perfect example of style, picked up in a story on a major wire service which faithfully still gives me a decent salary, to my almost daily amazement.
It's a story about Colombia and the many problems the Colombian president has.
According to the author of the story, the problems facing the president of Colombia are like "sitting on a razor's edge, trying to solve the quadrature of the circle without a parachute".
Again. I am not making this up.