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Interesting that the language used in this line seems to reflect professional usage, although I suppose doesn’t directly preclude amateurs…

Since Pres. Bush’s “internets” malapropism I’ve developed the theory that Bush knew what he was talking about and we just weren’t being let in on the multiple internet thing.

100%! Just how many internets there are is what I want to know. And how do we set up “Integrated Access Points” is the term I came up with while sleeping…

“Daley was known for his tangled tongue. [...] One of Daley’s most memorable malapropisms was uttered in 1968 while defending what the news media reported as police misconduct during that year’s violent and confrontational Democratic Convention. “Gentlemen, get the thing straight once and for all — the policeman isn’t there to create disorder, the policeman is there to preserve disorder.” Another notable Daley malapropism was his statement that “We shall reach greater and greater platitudes of achievement.”

Earl Bush, the mayor’s press aide, once chastised reporters, saying “You should have printed what he meant, not what he said.”"

But then, perhaps what he said, was what he meant.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Royko

Sorry, I love Chicago down to it’s dirty underpants and when you love something that much it’s all you can talk about.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gift_economy

I hadn’t really thought about it before but Wiki has decided that political Machines are examples of the above.

Sorry, but here’s my Chicago-as-metaphor-for-everything-else note. During my childhood the Democratic party was known as The Machine. There were reform movements but most things just got smoothed over, not cleaned up. Our current Mayor Daley is the son of the former Mayor Daley, the man who built and perfected The Machine. Our current Mayor couldn’t speak a proper sentence if his life depended on it but the machine is better than ever because people think there’s no machine left. I guess what I’m trying to say is that just because it looks stupid and sounds stupid doesn’t mean that it’s ineffective.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_J._Daley