Chops; F-cknut

[Barry A. Popik]

CHOPS (continued)

     This is from the New York Post, Liz Smith's gossip/celebrity press
release column, 5 May 1999, pg. 16, col. 6:

     GWYNETH PALTROW took to the Copacabana stage the other night at a rowdy
gala for the Blue Light Theater.  Gwyneth sang, accompanied by the great
_Phoebe Snow_ and the Tony-nominated actress _Stockard Channing_.  The
unlikely trio ripped into _Mick Jagger's_ anthem "Satisfaction."  (...)
     After it was over, Phoebe Snow told friends, "Gwyneth has _chops_!"

     Maybe that's why Shakespeare loved her.

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FUCKNUT

     The Online Dictionary of Playground Slang has "FUCKNUT (n) derog., An
excessively stupid of unpleasant person."
     This is not in the second edition of THE F-WORD.

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      This weekend (when I returned) had to be a record for established
newspapers getting my stuff wrong.
      There was the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, pointed out by Grant Barrett;
Gerald Cohen and I are trying to correct that.
      There was the Chicago Tribune on "the Windy City"; I e-mailed the
writer and editors on Sunday, with no response.
      And then, just to guarantee my complete despair, and beyond all hope of
any correction, there was this, on a May 1, 1999 Op-Ed page of The New York
Times:

"Please don't ask why New York is called the Big Apple; your guess is as good
as mine."