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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (78411)10/17/2004 4:05:33 PM
From: Sig   of 793917
 
<<<Putting lipstick on a pig" seems to me to be intelligible across cultures, provided you know what lipstick is and why it's worn and have some knowlegdge of pigs. On first hearing it, one would need to decipher it, but it's easily doable.

Oh, I've just read it and it does have tones of calling John Kerry a pig. Sure, the primary meaning was that he was trying to make a silk purse out of sow's ear, but there was an overlay of other implication suggesting that John Kerry with lipstick on would still be a pig and maybe a homosexual one at that, with his carefully coiffed hair and allegations of Botox >>>

With Kerry it would be closer to say 'putting lipstick on a moose'. But many cultures have never seen a moose close-up and therefore may not recognize it as an insult.

And a homosexual moose is something one should avoid at all costs. The terror of the tundra (g)
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