Great lines put to good use

You know how you sometimes hear a great line that you just know is the most perfect thing you could possibly say in a given situation? The kind of line you make yourself memorise in the hope that one day, somehow, you'll find yourself in a situation where you can use it? I did this a lot with Top Gun through the '90s, despite my complete lack of contact with fighter pilots and/or the aviation industry.

Now, 15 years after the episode was first screened I finally have occasion to use one of my favourite lines from The Simpsons:

"Discount lion safari!"

Oh lordy who ever heard of such a thing? Imagine! A discount lion safari!

Happily for me the global crisis thingy has finally led to lion safaris being discounted to never seen before prices:

African safaris on sale now Save Big $$$ [sic!]

So not only am I able to use one of my all-time favourite lines but I can also Save Big $$$ on my next African safari. This global financial crisis just keeps on giving.

PS, buy early, buy often

Oh those economic-type people do go on! Yesterday I was happily celebrating our democratic freedom not to consume (all the time) and today some silly sod is bagging just this kind of anti-consumerist attitude:

An economist at TD Securities, Mr [W], said inflation figures next week were likely to show consumer prices had fallen 0.6 per cent in the final quarter of 2008. Such deflation could became a real problem for the economy if consumers went on a "buying strike". "If consumers start thinking 'Why should I buy this good or service today when it's going to be lower tomorrow?' that can gum up the whole economy," Mr [W] said.

We wouldn't want to "gum up" the whole economy now, would we? Golly, what if we got caught in a lolly shop and could do nothing but get "gummed up" and stand helplessly by as deflation let down the tyres in the car park? Tricky times, these, tricky times indeed.