[lbo-talk] "tool" as insult?

Bill Bartlett billbartlett at aapt.net.au
Wed Sep 12 00:43:10 PDT 2012


At 11:39 PM -0400 11/9/12, Doug Henwood wrote:


>On Sep 11, 2012, at 11:32 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:
>
>> It seems that the implication is that the "tool" is stupid. Or is
>>it that it's being manipulated by someone?
>
>Means you're the passive or inert instrument of a higher or more
>powerful intelligence.
>
>Also, evokes "dick." Reminds me of that great letter to National
>Lampoon in the mid-70s, signed by Yvor Winters, disclosing that T.S.
>Eliot stirred his coffee with his tool.

When I was a bit younger, the rest of me was little more than a tool of my tool. ;-) Thankfully, now the hormones are under control a bit and I'm merely a tool.

I don't want to think about stirring my coffee with my tool. Yes, it would hurt, I don't care how macho a bloke is, he would scream like a baby.

Bill Bartlett Bracknell Tas



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