February 4, 2018
Bro, you can start some sentences with a conjunction. Didn’t you get the memo?
This week, I wanted to go with a theme that either pertained to the Super Bowl (which already happened as of the time this post was published) or current events. Guess what I went with.
As you may know, the word “memo” has made the rounds since the middle of January because the Republican Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee, Devin Nunes (who hails from my state, California), spearheaded a secret memo. That memo contained notes about the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Justice, which the Republicans in the Intelligence Committee alleged were conspiring against President Donald Trump and his associates. Reactions to the release of the memo were definitely mixed, but the prevalent response was overwhelmingly negative and Nunes received the brunt of it.
There was a lot of ribbing going on even before the memo was released on Friday, like this February 1, 2018 article from USA Today:
“OnPolitics Today: Did Trump get the memo on changes to the memo?”
On a lighter note:
The phrase “did you get the memo” may have been popularized from a comedy from the 1990’s, but I wanted to do a little bit of extra research to see when memos were first used.
Continue reading “Famous Sayings: #100 — ‘Didn’t You Get the Memo?’”
Shmaltz and Menudo 