Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Caught at Sea

Seeing the ever-cheeky Ricky Gervais do his thing on the Emmy broadcast on the weekend reminded me of this bit of his. It's an entertaining example of how even just a slightly offbeat choice of word (in this case, caught) can cause a reader (in this case, the ever-cheeky Ricky Gervais) to make unintended (and in this case, delightfully whimsical) associations.