A British explorer had said it sounded like a hysterectomy performed with blunt spoons.

But if you ever wait that long again to tell me something I need to know, I will dismantle you with a blunt spoon.

I couldn't argue with that; I should have liked nothing better than to disembowel Dr. Fentiman with a blunt spoon.

I would rather remove my eyeballs from my head with a blunt spoon than listen to "A Prairie Home Companion," and no one in my family has checked into Hazelden.