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WEASEL WORDS

 Is weasel word a euphemism ?  Or is euphemism in fact a weasel word ?  Or the other way round ? Am I talking complete cobblers ? I reject this. Reject is the new deny. There's no confirm or deny here. You just simply whack the white ball off the table. As in 'the Japanese whaling companies reject the accusation that 'scientific whaling' is the biggest load of  cobblers since someone suggested Shane Warne's tweets were a form of writing. Reject. It's brilliant. Mr Hitler and Mr Goebbels would have loved this shit...... "Hitler today rejected accusations that he had invaded Czechoslovakia and Poland, explaining that his neighbours had gone out leaving the lights on and he'd popped in to switch them off . And what's this? Oops, France, you've left the back door unlocked again. Careless .." And moving right along to the relatively trivial, we here at ALIAS POOR YORICK are a bit tickled at a local theatre company's warning that their ...