I'm sure this isn't original, but it was the first I'd read it...In a speech on political humor, former US Senator Alan Simpson referred to a barefoot, frail Gandhi with bad breath as:
super-calloused fragile mystic hexed with halitosis
I laughed.
(via Dana Millbank at the Washington Post)
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