Eccentric Flower:199808/definitely poor taste
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thirty august ninety eight eleven p m definitely poor taste Oh, my goodness. While looking up an old Bob Garfield column for this week's Stay Tuned, I found this. Wow. I actually think it's funny. But I agree with Garfield - it's definitely in poor taste. Then again, I was watching Daria all weekend so my sense of humor is definitely in the dark end of the spectrum right now. Oh, by the by, of course I goofed. Samuel Johnson, although definitely irascible, was a lexicographer. He did have a famous biographer, of course - that little toady Boswell. I mean, think about it. Boswell didn't do anything worthwhile except write about someone else, yet his name is in all the history books - and usually in a bio entry on Johnson, a third of it is about him. As far as I'm concerned, that's riding to glory on someone else's coattails. It's like writing about Nancy Reagan and then spending two paragraphs talking about Kitty Kelley. But I digress. © columbine |
