Formal Fallacy

Paging Professor Higgins

In Hertford, Hereford, and Hampshire, hurricanes hardly ever happen.

The rain is Spain stays mainly in the plain.

According to his wife, it was Gabriel Pascal who introduced the above phonetic exercises into the musical My Fair Lady.  Speech Professor Herbert Higgins forces poor Eliza Doolittle to endlessly repeat both until she finally slays her Cockney accent with the song, The Rain in Spain.

Does anyone have Professor Higgins’ phone number?  McCain needs some help.

Even though Foreign Policy is McCain’s self-proclaimed strength, the presidential nominee apparently thinks Spain is a country in SOUTH AMERICA!  I kid you not.

If Foreign Policy is McCain’s strength, then I’d hate to see his weakness.  Oh, wait.   I forgot about the fundamentals.

Good news is, it appears this election is no longer about personality and we’re back to talking about issues.  More good news, Obama has regained the lead in the latest polls and seems to be gaining.

If I were McCain, I’d give Professor Higgins a call before I said anything else about Spain being a terrorist state or how a fundamental really means an American worker.

What’s that you say?  Professor Higgins is fictional?  Well, so is Sarah Palin’s biography, and that seemed to work out okay for a while.

Chris

Update:  Seems Time beat me to the punch as far as the My Fair Lady reference is concerned. I guess that proves my theory that the age of interconnectivity has killed originality.