| Friday, December 6, 2002 |
13:24 - Of Mistake Is You
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You know, I'm getting really, really sick of hearing the words "Make no mistake".
Politicians have been saying "Make no mistake" ever since 9/11, as though it were coined on that day: "Make no mistake-- we will hunt down and destroy the perpetrators." "Make no mistake-- terrorists will have no place to hide." "Make no mistake-- we will make no mistakes." Give it a rest already!
It's another of those phrases that stops making sense at all if you think about it too long, like "all in all" or "by and large". What, are they honestly trying to prevent us from making mistakes? If so, is it Engrish? I can picture sitting down in class to take an exam, and the professor at the front of the room says: "You are have one hours for complete of test. Make no mistake!"
I wonder what the phrase sounds like in other countries where people are supposed to interpret it as a warning. Does it sound determined, or just dorky? How does Al-Jazeera translate it? "If you make no errors, we will destroy you." Huh?
Maybe it's al-Qaeda-esque code language, designed to awaken CIA sleeper agents like the Mossad agents recently redeployed undercover by Sharon in response to the Kenya attacks. Every "make no mistake", coupled with the sentence that follows it, is really an encoded message to some deep-cover operative. With the number of times we've heard it from Bush and Rumsfeld and Ashcroft by now, there should be a veritable army out there in the underground, launching secret shadow-war machinations with every televised speech.
Or maybe I've just been reading too much Seanbaby lately.
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