Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Climateer Line of the Day: Meta-metaphor Edition

Mark Gongloff at MarketBeat takes the prestigious CLoD with a walk off home run (4:25 P.M. EDT timestamp):
Well, folks, that was August. Good riddance. From a US credit-rating downgrade to an horrific hurricane, there wasn’t much good about August.

The last day of the month ended in appropriately irritating fashion, with a big early stock-market rally losing air and sputtering around the room like an untied balloon at the world’s saddest children’s party....
-August Ends, Appropriately, With a Giant Raspberry Sound
Added bonus: we have a runner-up!