Heard Somebody On AAR Say The Republicans Were Looking For A New "Boogieperson" !!!

[WillyT]

Is this an instance where gender-neutral language backfires, and slides into sillyville?

A boogieperson??? Here's a boogieperson:



:shrug:

[TwilightGardener]

1. Well, he IS a Scientologist. They're a little scary.

[Mz Pip]

2. A new one?

They haven't caught the old one.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[HCE SuiGeneris]

3. I imagine it will be "London plot suspect escapes in Pakistan"

Sun Dec 16, 12:03 PM ET http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071216/ts_nm/pakistan_security_dc

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A Pakistani-British man suspected of involvement in an al Qaeda plot to blow up U.S.-bound airliners over the Atlantic has escaped from custody in the Pakistani capital, a senior official said on Sunday.
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Rashid Rauf escaped on Saturday from outside an Islamabad court where police had escorted him for an extradition hearing.

"We're trying our best to re-arrest him," said Interior Ministry spokesman, Brigadier Javed Iqbal Cheema, speaking more than 20 hours after Rauf's disappearance.

Cheema gave no details on how Rauf escaped but he said the government had set up an inquiry to investigate the incident and report back within 48 hours.

[C_U_L8R]

4. Like Brock Landers?

and Chest Rockwell?

[DavidDvorkin]

5. So-called gender-neutral language is always silly

"Boogeyperson" is just another example of the silliness.