Entries from Seattlest tagged with 'slang'
August 15, 2007
Tall, Grande, Venti: I Came, I Saw, I Made the Same Observation as Thousands of Other Lazy Comedians
Ron Rosenbaum, in Slate, has discovered and dissected the worst op-ed article ever written: Stanley Fish's "Getting Coffee Is Hard to Do," in the August 5 New York Times. Rosenbaum spends three amusing pages shredding Fish's article, examining the many, many instances of "unintentional humor" and "comic cluelessness." And he pegs early on one of the shopworn observations Fish attempts to pass off as insight. As Fish notes: First you have to get in......
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