Posted by redcped on 2/25/2021 3:30:00 PM (view original):

Posted by barracuda3 on 2/25/2021 3:19:00 PM (view original):

Posted by redcped on 2/25/2021 1:35:00 PM (view original):
Great job, barracuda. My goal is to write one of these half as well as you do. Perhaps if I don a hairshirt ...

From that review, a highly worthy gem:

"Schneider was nominated for a 2000 Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actor, but lost to Jar-Jar Binks."

That quote that you cited is, in all seriousness, my favorite sentence ever written in the English language. Or, presumably, in any other language.

Probably why Ebert has a Pulitzer and I do not.

I am fond of any sentence containing the word "oleaginous," which only George Will seems to use anymore. So I reserve the right to select a favorite later.

That word sent me scrambling to the Google. Good word.

Not to get political here, but George Will knows his way with words quite well. His opener from a 2018 column:

"Donald Trump, with his feral cunning, knew. The oleaginous Mike Pence, with his talent for toadyism and appetite for obsequiousness, could, Trump knew, become America’s most repulsive public figure."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-is-no-longer-the-worst-person-in-government/2018/05/09/10e59eba-52f1-11e8-a551-5b648abe29ef_story.html

my goal for the next version has nothing to do with drafting my team. i am aiming to be on the same planet as baracuda on the write up. it would probably be easier to have a good team.