Following the 2005 election, Johnson was initially announced on 6 May 2005 as being «Secretary of State for Productivity, Energy and Industry», but after just a week, on 13 May, it was declared that the new title would not be used, after
widespread derision of the new name, because the abbreviation for Johnson's title, Productivity, Energy and Industry Secretary, would have been «PENIS».
Not exact matches
by Walter Chaw Its final cut a full thirty minutes shorter than the one that was shown to
widespread derision at last year's Cannes Film Festival, Vincent Gallo's The Brown Bunny is laced with melancholy and a crushing sense
of loneliness.
The book that followed, Portrait
of a Killer (2002), identified British painter Walter Sickert as the culprit — and earned Cornwell
widespread derision among so - called Ripperologists.
In 2000, I wrote a short paper entitled «Death
of the Risk Premium,» with Ron Ryan, which was received with
widespread derision, but ultimately proved correct: plain old 10 - year government bonds have produced higher returns than stocks since then, by a cumulative margin
of over 30 %, despite the durable bull market since 2002.
After a decade in which sane commentators have been angered and frustrated by the purblind adherence to the warmist superstition by followers
of the Al Gore cult — prominent among them our own esteemed First Minister and President for Life Designate — the whole climate change scam has finally degenerated into a joke, provoking
widespread derision.