"It's _away_ better than fast food! It's Wendy's!" [NT}

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 9:34 PM, Wilson Gray<hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Jesus Christ, Ben! (Remember the place in None Call It Sleep wherein
> the Jewish kid marvels that the Christers have a god whose name is a
> curse word?) There's no conclusion to be drawn from the example of a
> *different* commercial! Especially one that's as long and as boring as
> that one. But it was nice to see that someone had decided to give a
> brotha a break. ;-)

Sorry, Wilson! So, which commercial was it? All you gave us was the
subject line with no other info. I gave up looking for one with "away"
after suffering through the long boring one...


--Ben Zimmer

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