Infinite MonkeysBeats me. I have but two descriptions for the wine I drink: "Hmmm. Delightful!" and "Ach! It burns!" Yet the world of wino-literature is teeming with such offenses as "Sweaty saddles," "caramel-coated autumn leaves," and "Quaffable, but, uh, far from transcendent." Mike Steinberger, who gets paid to pen such stuff, explains today in Slate: "We use this language because it's the best we've got."
Paid too much perhaps.
Posted by H.L. Monkey at June 18, 2007 02:52 PMBravo for using the term, jagoff — which, to my knowledge is a unique Pittsburgh-area term. I remember fondly at the height of the first Batman movie, Pittsburgh-native Michael Keaton was on Letterman and used the term "jagoff," which puzzled Dave. So Michael had to explain. Good stuff.
Posted by: Dr. Zaius at June 19, 2007 09:12 AM