(1). Two things that can’t be compared … like Anchorman and the lowly Anchorman II.
“It’s apples and oranges. We build gizmos, they build doohickies. Totally different businesses.”
Apples and Oranges
RANDOM LINGO
Smear Campaign
(1). Negative ads and rhetoric designed to focus everyone’s attention on some insignificant detail of a candidate’s past (and away from his opponent’s lack of qualifications). So, in other words, every campaign ever.
“This is ridiculous! It’s just a blatant smear campaign by the Senator in an attempt to make it look like I cheat on my wife. It’s disgraceful! I only cheated on my wife that one time…last week…with my secretary…in my kid’s room.”
Temperature Check
(1). A scientific experiment designed to determine how badly you’ve screwed something up.
“We need to take a temperature check to see how mad the customer is that we missed our deadline.”
Props to Terry D. for the submission.