How come bombshells never turn out to be bombshells?

[trumad]

It's a term bandied about quite often here and they usually end up being duds.

[T Roosevelt]

1. Cause there's always another one to take away from it

It's truly amazing, first torture, then Woodward, then Foley, now Korea. Sheez it's hard to keep up!

[Avalux]

2. Because "our" bombshells are not that of the regular populace -

it's true. The most important things, the big stuff that threaten our rights and diminish the Constitution seem boring to most Americans. It takes a sex scandal to wake people up and force change. Kinda pathetic, no?

[kohodog]

3. Bombshells aren't bombs. They're bombshells. n/t