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Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Block that metaphor!

“If we accept as a principle of law what was said in Reynolds, a criminal case or whatever, and apply it to government contracting, where sophisticated contractors are perfectly capable of negotiating their own contract, we are not just throwing a monkey wrench into the gears of government contracting,” Justice Breyer said. “We’re throwing the whole monkey.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/19/us/19scotus.html?src=mv&ref=us

Monkey wrenches don’t have anything to do with monkeys. They are a type of adjustable wrench – like the one in the board game Clue.  Now, Crescent wrenches are now a much more common type of adjustable wrench.

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