NO, NOT REALLY - From the judges’ comments: “San Diego is not a city known for grand idiomatic gestures, so it was a welcome surprise to see it stage an actual garbage fire in a year when so many disastrous things have been described in that manner. Points also for submitting the same situation as a Hot Mess; it’s a bit dated, but it shows a depth of cultural awareness to be able to call the same situation by two metaphorically resonant and yet literal names. Only in a year when there was an actual nuclear summit between President Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un could something this good finish second.”
NO, NOT REALLY - From the judges’ comments: “San Diego is not a city known for grand idiomatic gestures, so it was a welcome surprise to see it stage an actual garbage fire in a year when so many disastrous things have been described in that manner. Points also for submitting the same situation as a Hot Mess; it’s a bit dated, but it shows a depth of cultural awareness to be able to call the same situation by two metaphorically resonant and yet literal names. Only in a year when there was an actual nuclear summit between President Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un could something this good finish second.”
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