October 22, 2008

Neologism: Pull a Palin

In a recent edition of the New Yorker's Cartoon Lounge, Randall Munroe (of xkcd fame) was asked to draw, among other things, his favourite animal eating his favourite food.
Here's what he submitted:
So, expression of the day/month/next four years (depending on the US elections' outcome) is "to Pull a Palin", i.e. to evade a challenge you can't complete by doing something cutesy and completely unrelated.

Also, on a unrelated Palin note, I laughed my ass off with Randall's first answer: "
any longer in front of this screen and my skin tone might actually hit #FFFFFF (that's pure white written in nerdish hexadecimal -Markos)"

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