Just how good is "darn good"???

[CatWoman]

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It's sort of like the color-wheel alert system that tells us how scared we should be every day. It works like this:


Level 1, ``Most Excellent'': This is Grade A, top-of-the-line intelligence, which means that we captured it on video surveillance tape, like they use down at the 7-Eleven. Unless the people we've taped are wearing fake beards or mustaches, this level of intelligence is beyond question.

Level 2, ``Darn Good'': This is high-grade intelligence that we've gotten from normally reliable sources such as the British Secret Service or the op-ed page of The Akron Beacon-Journal. The Saddam-Africa-nuke evidence was from the Brits. Perhaps we should have been more skeptical when their espionage source reported that the materials for Saddam's nuclear cocktail should be ``shaken, not stirred.''

Level 3, ``Pretty Decent'': This is intelligence that's not quite up to snuff for a State of the Union address, but can be slipped into a speech for a fund-raiser in any state that borders the Mississippi River.

Level 4, ``Stuff We Hope is True'': These are intelligence reports culled from such critical sources as Tom Clancy novels, Sylvester Stallone movies or ``Imus in the Morning.'' Nothing we would want to be linked to directly, mind you, but an effective psy-ops weapon when leaked to Rush Limbaugh in the guise of ``breaking news.''

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[kentuck]

1. "darn good" not good enough to prevent 9/11...

And it appears to have deteriorated since then....

[AnnabelLee]

2. "Darn good" means...*sigh*...well,

there are some things that we know are unknowable, & getting all henny-penny about them is unproductive & not mission critical...

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

6. You KNOW I like that one.

Like a (it's not a)Guerrilla with a suitcase.

[Ellen Forradalom]

3. Better than 'pretty good'

but worse than 'fucking awesome.'

[trof]

9. "Almost good"

I flew for a Japanese airline for several years.
Twice a year we'd have to go into the simulator for a check ride. We'd get one on the line (in the aircraft) at least once a year. Many times the government inspectors (like FAA) would comment, after the ride, "almost good." We thought it meant something like "pretty good". I should mention that almost all of these guys were extremely xenophobic, they really looked down on us round-eyes.

One night I was out with one of the Japanese company pilots. We'd had several beers and things were loose. I said "Saito-san, what does 'almost good' mean?"
He said "Almost good mean...no good", and laughed. "We wonder how long before you ask."

Maybe darn good=almost good
;-)

[dfong63]

4. "darn good" == "almost true"

[lisafromstlouie]

5. I don't know who looks worse.

Bush or the CIA.

[PretzelWarrior]

7. Darn Good means: folksy cover statement by Rove speechwriting

to make Bush look like some kind of Gary Cooper who "honestly" went with what they thought was good at the time but turns out horribly wrong.

THis is to mask the utter evil intent of taking anything and everything remotely connected to Iraq and painting a much worse picture of Saddam's capabilities to SCARE the American people and SCARE the U.S. congress and SCARE UN Security Council. THe only ones who didn't blink because they are more sophisticated than average American were the U.N. diplomats. THey told BUsh to go take a flying F*ck and that is precisely what he did.

Now it is couched as "Darn good...awww shucks...goldarnit"

[plcdude]

8. darn good

* says pickles is darn good in bed and so is he. They don't move much nor snore.

[PurityOfEssence]

10. better than "dang good", but not quite as good as "real good"

It's sorta what Dad useta call "swell".

[XNASA]

11. It's somewhere between....

...."dang gnarly" and "doggone neato".

[damnraddem]

12. Just how darn good is 'darn good'?

And just how darn good are darn-good lies?

How darn good is intelligence when the spy agencies are told by the politicos what to discover?

How darn good is good and damned?

[damnraddem]

13. Just how darn good is 'darn good'?

And just how darn good are darn-good lies?

How darn good is damned by one's own trickery?

How darn good is intelligence when the spy agencies are told by the politicos what to discover?