January 30, 2011
Another twofer here.  We have mangled French, and de-Lambification.  Actually, since the original phrase was two shakes of a lamb’s tail, this Blizzard company representative is thrice wrong.  Based on the sentence construction, it’s almost like he meant to say “drop of a hat,” and just Madlibbed a different verb and noun in there. Interestingly, all the google results for the invented phrase “shake of a nose” are various repostings of that WoW thread, aside from some article about wine, where “nose” is used in the fancy wine sense. 

Another twofer here.  We have mangled French, and de-Lambification.  Actually, since the original phrase was two shakes of a lamb’s tail, this Blizzard company representative is thrice wrong.  Based on the sentence construction, it’s almost like he meant to say “drop of a hat,” and just Madlibbed a different verb and noun in there.

Interestingly, all the google results for the invented phrase “shake of a nose” are various repostings of that WoW thread, aside from some article about wine, where “nose” is used in the fancy wine sense. 

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