So as the opposition parties rambled on last week about impeaching Mr Roh over an apparently innocuous public comment, most onlookers dismissed it as a stunt typical of South Korean politics, which usually involve lots of histrionics.This changed quickly after Mr Roh held a defiant press conference on March 11th and, in effect, dared the parliament to challenge him.
Mr Berlusconi rambled; Angela Merkel bored; Mr Sarkozy overdid it.
He rambled like a man with his mouth full and nothing particular on his mind.
The initiatives became longer the longest rambled on for 15,633 words and, with double negatives and impenetrable legalese, less comprehensible.Ironically enough, Southern Pacific, now itself just another interest group, bankrolled an initiative in 1990 to issue billions in bonds to support rail transport.
Altima accused Telenor of sabotaging its growth.For several years the dispute rambled on, with several attempts at arbitration and suits and countersuits in various courts around the world.
As for Mr Edwards, his brazen infidelity with a political hanger-on and videographer, who rambled on about reincarnation and who introduced herself as a witch, only serves to demonstrate that America dodged a bullet in 2004 when Mr Edwards was the vice-presidential nominee.The minor candidates get their say, though they are, not surprisingly, covered more sketchily.
Although neither he nor the president landed any knockout blows, Mr Romney appeared both more relaxed and more focused; the president seemed listless, rambled in his answers and seemed unable to make the case for his own re-election.
So far, I've seen an ad featuring a former fellow POW of John McCainn who rambled on that the senator's temper is too hot for him to be president.
These two diversions have rambled widely in the fields of wordy humour for many decades.
Some rambled; others were concise.
While eloquent humanists rambled through Europe and spread the word about the classics, the method that might have unified their efforts lay, available but unheeded, in texts of Plato and Aristotle.
