[Ads-l] brew ha ha

[Joel Berson]

You get what you deserve, Ben, when you treat paper as obsolete ...
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On his personal blog on Tuesday, Schilling did not back down, even as advocates in the transgender community called for his dismissal.

“Let’s make one thing clear right upfront,” he wrote. “If you get offended by ANYTHING in this post, that’s your fault, all yours.” He added: “This latest brew ha ha is beyond hilarious. I didn’t post that ugly picture. I made a comment about the basic functionality of men’s and women’s restrooms, period.”
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The New York Times, by Richard Sandomir, today; identically in its sister/no longer daughter kin the Boston Globe, same byline, today -- on paper.  Schilling is quoted, and his phrase is not corrected.  Perhaps simply quoting Schilling verbatim was too sly for online readers.

Joel

      From: Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at GMAIL.COM>
 To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU 
 Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2016 12:37 PM
 Subject: Re: [ADS-L] brew ha ha
   
Coincidentally enough, the New York Times noted Curt Schilling's use of
"brew ha ha" and slyly corrected it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/21/sports/baseball/curt-schilling-espn-transgender.html
“This latest brew ha ha is beyond hilarious,” he wrote of the brouhaha.


On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 9:54 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The CNN crawl quotes one of the indicted Michigan officials as describing
> the criminal charges against him as one more of "those brew ha has" that
> develop now and then.
>
> Obviously something that seems funny after a few beers.
>
> BTW, there is a chain of coffee houses in Delaware and environs called
> "Brew Haha!" but so what?
>
>

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