Crown Royal Shirley Temple

[Mark Kohut]

You didn't mention Pussy Galore....

On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 2:31 AM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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.
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