Crown Royal Shirley Temple

[Michael Bailey]

Neal Fultz wrote:

hints of nostalgia or arrested development


- Oh, no wonder it sounded good to me


when she's self-medicating
with a spiked version. Interesting character beat. Doesn't sound good
to me but let us know.


- as a drinker, I’m a flyweight. Sippin’ on a scaled-down one right
now. It’s not terrible. Synchronistically, just saw an ad for Crown
Royal featuring that dude from In The Heights. Anthony Ramos. A
galore* of freckles on that guy!

https://www.allure.com/story/anthony-ramos-freckles-interview/amp


(Working through the drunkpynchon blog could be a fun project.)



* That the word was originally defined as a noun may strike the modern
reader, familiar with phrases like "problems galore" and "bells and
whistles galore," as completely foreign. But the lexicographers who
added the word to the 1864 dictionary were assessing the evidence
available to them, which was likely in keeping with the early 19th
century evidence later included in the Scottish National Dictionary
<http://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/galore>—such phrases as "by that time
I had galore" and "galores of bread and cheese." We don’t know if the
editors themselves had ever used the word. We only know that they felt
compelled to leave a note about its usage: "This word is not now used
except in some parts of England, and by sailors."

We haven't verified the sailor part, but the writers of the usage note were
only partially correct about the other assertion: the Dictionary of
American Regional English <http://www.daredictionary.com/> (the volume
covering D-H having been published in 1985) includes exactly two 19th
century noun examples of galore, gathered in Missouri and Connecticut:
"treating all comers to galore of drink" and "the little boys took galore
of apples." There's also a 1947 example from the northwestern U.S.:
"There's a galore of 'em [=Rocky Mountain Sheep] beyond the Yellowstone."
That the noun is rare—and has been for at least 150 years—is nonetheless
clear.