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Related: About this forumGuess that phrase! (Romney adviser - "campaign turning into a vulgar, unprintable phrase.")
"...a flustered adviser, describing the mood, said that the campaign was turning into a vulgar, unprintable phrase."
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/18/a-mood-of-gloom-afflicts-the-romney-campaign/?smid=tw-thecaucus&seid=auto
So many possibilities. What could it be? I am guessing "clusterfuck"
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Guess that phrase! (Romney adviser - "campaign turning into a vulgar, unprintable phrase.") (Original Post)
yellowcanine
Sep 2012
OP
"clusterfuck" is a word, not a phrase. It needs a vulgar, unprintable adjective to go with it
Orangepeel
Sep 2012
#1
A stinking pile of worm-infested baboon crap frozen on the front windshield in January.
HopeHoops
Sep 2012
#4
Orangepeel
(13,933 posts)1. "clusterfuck" is a word, not a phrase. It needs a vulgar, unprintable adjective to go with it
Mike Daniels
(5,842 posts)2. If it really is a phrase I would would go with "pile of s@@@"
That said I think the likely vulgarity was cluster.... and "phrase" was misused or was intended to mean "word".
TardisBlue
(56 posts)3. I think it's FUBAR
F****d Up Beyond All Recognition. It's a phrase with a vulgar word that provides an accurate description.
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)4. A stinking pile of worm-infested baboon crap frozen on the front windshield in January.
Silent3
(15,431 posts)7. I just have to ask...
...where the hell do you drive your car? I definitely want to avoid that route.
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)8. Ever commuted in the DC or Boston areas?
It only freezes in the Boston area.
Lucy Goosey
(2,940 posts)5. Rat-fucking?
Shit storm?
ncgrits
(916 posts)6. "Romeny presidential campaign" is vulgar enough. nt