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12:34 PM - Mandarin Palace Within a twenty mile radius of our beloved cubicle farm, there are over ½ dozen restaurants with the which explicitly claim to be "Mandarin" in their name. Quite probably we have managed to find the very worst of these today, a little hole in the wall on Midwest Blvd. with delusions of grandeur so great that it calls itself the "Mandarin Palace," though it is in no sense palatial. Its competitors are more modest, preferring names such as "Mandarin Express" or "Mandarin Chinese Restaurant." Even the second-most ostentatious eatery only lays claim to the name of "Mandarin Garden." Now, calling this tiny rectangular hovel a "palace" is a stretch even by the advertising industry standards. Only the executive branch of the U.S. government can come close to this level of euphemism, having of late gifted the English language with phrases like "pre-emptive self-defense," "regime change," and "compassionate conservatism." Less recently but more flagrantly, the DoD gave us the "Daisy Cutter" and "Operation Just Cause," both of which were criticized for causing "collateral damage." I suppose no one can really hold a candle to the armed services when it comes to euphemism. (
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