OmarShamgar said..
I'm new here, but I now know about tools.
Not to be a persistent pedant - but I beg to differ, on all three points.
Although at least that is a slight improvement in wit on the original "it's a storm in a gimlet'.
Hence, I will punch this information into this forum once again - neither 'storm' nor 'gimlet' seem to make sense.
If you were trying to downplay the seriousness of allegations of sexual assault whilst mocking the alleged allegation somebody who played football for the Sydney Swans claimed to be a carpenter whilst snorting coke from a hooker's arse, I fail to see any double, let alone triple, entendre in the words.
Presumably the base of your statement is the well known phrase 'storm in a tea-cup' and it was an attempt to adapt that phrase, in a comical way, to suit the situation (albeit with blind disregard to the seriousness of the events and the physical and emotional wellbeing of the victims).
In which case I feel you would need to change both the 'storm' and 'tea-cup' to suit the situation, creating at least double but preferably many multiple interpretations for them, both individually and collectively.
I am not here to spoon feed everyone punchlines, but perhaps using a word such as 'flap' to replace 'storm' with the side reference to swans wings and a carpenter's tool that could either replace a tea-cup or the name of which had some phonetic similarity to something in the story - perhaps the name of the hotel chain or one of the persons involved, perhaps a sexual inuendo or even a reference to illicit drug consumption.
For somebody who may have frequented these forums before I feel that all the tools have been provide to create a witty retort on the topic myscreenname has nicely set-up for us, but the craftsmanship in your response was of .... well, lets just say it was more than just low quality.....