Reversed in & out

[Joel S. Berson]

At 10/20/2011 10:09 AM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
>If we are picking nits, it should be "mountains' majesty", which comes
>from the song "America the Beautiful". Bad editing?

I just assumed Las Vegas had both mountains  (' majesty) and other
kinds of majesty, like Roman emperors.

Joel


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>On Oct 20, 2011, at 12:47 AM, "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET> wrote:
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> > In her NY Times 'The TV Watch" column of yesterday (Oct. 19) on the
> > previous night's Republican candidates' debate, Alessandra Stanley
> > writes "Mr. Romney looked a little like a country club tennis player
> > dealing with a nonmenber guest who gauchely calls a ball in that was
> > obviously out."
> >
> > When I remember playing tennis without line umpires at the country
> > club, it was the player whose side the ball landed on who was
> > supposed to call close shots.  A gauche nonmenber like myself (I mean
> > I was a nonmember, not a gauche) would therefore call a ball "out"
> > that was obviously in.  [Not yet corrected on-line by the chair umpire.]
> >
> > Ms. Stanley perhaps needs to attend a Sports 101 semester (as well as
> > Creative Writing 153, "Overuse of Alliteration").  Later in her
> > article she writes that "The introduction to the Las Vegas debate --
> > with music, mountains, majesty and a montage of gambling images --
> > was a cheesy blend of Caesars* Palace and 'Sunday Night Football.'"
> >
> > Surely the epitome of male sports-watching excess is "Monday
> Night Football."
> >
> > Joel
> >
> > * This at least is correct, as I did not know but am informed of by
> > Wikipedia.  Which says "It is called "Caesars" and not "Caesar's"
> > because every guest is a Caesar. [citation needed]".  Which of course
> > is wrong, both on Wikipedia's account and on Caesars's.
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