Gramps
Mayor
When I was young I'd take any task that came along if I could make a nickle or two. When cherries came in for harvest we got a dime a lug for picking them -- a lug being a basket that took a good half hour to pick if you got lucky. That was cherry picking 1930's style.
Cherry picking today is taking a phrase from a paragraph and enhancining its meaning to be an opposite to what it intended.
If I was a cherry picker back in colonial days and used today's methods some famous people would be furious.
Here's one example..........I regret that I have BUT one life to give for my country.
Cherry picked by omitting a single word.
I regret that I have one life to give for my country.
WOW. How's that for change?
A local announcer who was just cherry-picked is furious that his newscast assignment and broadcast has been used in a campaign ad where it sounds as though he's almost endorsing a candidate when nothing could be further from the truth.
If I was in BIG BIRD'S feathers I'd take flight and crap all over anyone who used me to feather their nest. Try to imagine a dump from abird that big.
Gramps
Cherry picking today is taking a phrase from a paragraph and enhancining its meaning to be an opposite to what it intended.
If I was a cherry picker back in colonial days and used today's methods some famous people would be furious.
Here's one example..........I regret that I have BUT one life to give for my country.
Cherry picked by omitting a single word.
I regret that I have one life to give for my country.
WOW. How's that for change?
A local announcer who was just cherry-picked is furious that his newscast assignment and broadcast has been used in a campaign ad where it sounds as though he's almost endorsing a candidate when nothing could be further from the truth.
If I was in BIG BIRD'S feathers I'd take flight and crap all over anyone who used me to feather their nest. Try to imagine a dump from abird that big.
Gramps
