Trudeau came to power promising not to raise the gas tax by 18 cents a gallon. And he didn't. He raised it 12 cents a gallon and then 11 cents a gallon. Neither was 18 cents, so they kept their promise. You just have to learn how to speak politickese.

They were libelled for salvage by the officers who took them up, and libelled as property by the miscreants called Spanish gentlemen who had bought them in Cuba, knowing them to be Bozal negroes fresh from Africa.

But come to the clock, Mary. Remember, our lives are short, and they contain only a certain number of tick tacks; we cannot, therefore, afford to waste them.

He [Dubyaman, a parody comic superhero based loosely on George W. Bush] searches for dirty ratfink terrorists and aims to ferret out their whacko ideas.