June will mark the final month on City Council for Blake Caravati, Charlottesville’s premier rhetorician. For the past eight years, Caravati has baffled supporters and opponents alike with more non sequitur folkisms than H. Ross Perot.
As Caravati enters the home stretch, this week we offer a quiz to help you get the most out of his final meetings. One of the witticisms below was actually uttered by Caravati—we cooked up the rest by stabbing blindly at the keyboard. Can you pick out the real Caravati quote? If not, tune in to the last few Council meetings before his words are lost to history.—John Borgmeyer
1. “You can put lipstick on that pig, but you can’t make it fly.”
2. “Mr. Mayor, aren’t we putting the charette before the horse?”
3. “I would rather swing a big stick now, and save the carrot as a snack for later.”
4. “You let the cat out of the bag, so don’t ask me to shave it.”
