"Shovel-ready"?

[bunsen_h]

In today's Doonesbury, Alex describes herself as "a shovel-ready girlfriend".

Maybe I've been reading too much Girl Genius.  (Volume 8 is due for release in May!)  But... Alex is at MIT, yeah, full of Mad Engineering, not so much Mad Science, I thought.  I didn't know that grave-robbing was a big attraction there..?

(I had to do a bit of web searching to find out what the phrase was intended to refer to construction projects.)

Comments

[auriaephiala.livejournal.com]

You obviously haven't been reading the local or national news lately :-)

It's become a cliche in just a few weeks...

[bunsen-h.livejournal.com]

<shrug> I listen to the CBC radio news in the morning and evening, though I often miss bits, and I skim the news on the CBC website a couple of times a day. I can easily imagine missing a cliché that's only a few weeks old.

[beable]

I see room for the potential of a mad science and mad engineering crossover interest though.

I mean technically, isn't it all mad gadgetry?