"The Liberal candidate, ad executive Grant Gordon, came in a distant second with about 29 per cent of the votes cast.
"I wish you all the best of luck in Ottawa," Gordon said in his concession speech. "Alas, you poor bugger, you do have to go to Ottawa.""
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I saw him say this live on CP24.
The link is to a Google cache of the article on the Winnipeg Free Press site as I think the comment was edited out later.
Anybody else think this is deliberate and nasty?
On both the Winnipeg Free Press and 680 News sites, the quote was subsequently modified to this:
The Liberal candidate, ad executive Grant Gordon, came in a distant second with about 29 per cent of the votes cast.
"I wish you all the best of luck in Ottawa," Gordon said in his concession speech. "Alas . . . you do have to go to Ottawa."
The change just means the CP editor was wondering.
I dont know. Its just too common a turn of phrase to guess whether it was deliberate. Its not like he was stretching to get the word in there- the conventional use and meaning fits perfectly.
It may be very straight of me, but I never thought of where the word came from. Nor have ever thought about not using it. So you have to figure that is commeon.
