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Sunday — February 21, 2010Apolo →
Yuki Ohno chose to name his son Apolo after the Greek words “Ap,” which means to “steer away from” and “lo,” which means “look out; here he comes.”
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Hardly Anything Is A Damn Fruit →
Apples, I thought. Good old apples [are fruit]. No. They are pomes. What is a pome? Well, It’s a real fruit in the middle and a false fruit round the outside. It’s the real thing dressed up as a fake to avoid detection by the cops. So is the pear.No. None of them are bloody fruit. I feel so betrayed.
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“I cannot pass over the unforgivable use by a serious writer on wines and spirits of ‘whiskey’ to refer to Scotch whisky. I am afraid I found the constant misspelling of the product made your article quite unreadable. It is exactly the same as if you had called it ‘gin’ all the way through or were to describe Lafite as Burgundy. It is simply a basic error that a reputable writer should not make.’’
(via Whiskey versus Whisky - The Pour Blog - NYTimes.com)
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