The exit was slightly less polite.
Not so different, perhaps, but slightly more polite.
The Real Housewives of Vancouver spend more time outdoors and are slightly more polite than their American counterparts.
Instead, financial reform became a slightly more polite repeat of the health-care-reform brawl: the Republicans threatened filibusters, the Democrats threatened all-nighters, and thousands of lobbyists prowled the Capitol, charging their Wall Street clients more than a billion dollars.
Manuel, the most successful manager the Phillies have had in their mostly sorry existence, was unceremoniously axed last week in a way that was only slightly more polite than the way Terry Francona went out in Boston.
In slightly less polite wording, this is revenge, pure and simple". Yesterday some in the Israeli press said the operation was a failure, including Amir Rappaport, an analyst writing in Ma'ariv newspaper.
About half of them replied, among them Jack Kerouac ("Symbolism is alright in 'fiction' but I tell true life stories"), Ayn Rand, in irascible character ("your questions do not make sense"), and an only slightly more polite John Updike ("I have no method; there is no method in writing fiction: you don't seem to understand").
So one might be forgiven for asking "WTF, Canonical?" I posed a slightly more polite version of that question to Jane Silber, CEO of Canonical.
While these guys are bound by diplomacy not to say stuff like "Sony is rubbish" or "Nintendo is going down," they do make their feelings felt in slightly more polite terms.
"Linux for human beings" has always been Ubuntu's tagline, not "Linux for human being's portable electronic devices". So one might be forgiven for asking "WTF, Canonical?" I posed a slightly more polite version of that question to Jane Silber, CEO of Canonical.
