Comments on: Food Critic Blows It Over Botched Fellatio Joke

By: double down

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By: Bill Wilson

Bill Wilson — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 21:54:03 +0000

You’re spot on with this one. That entire joke was not even close to being clear.

I’m not sure he’ s exploiting the whole thing just to make a name for himself. That would require a degree of intelligence that is inconsistent with the bad joke–you have to be darn smart to write with a high level of cleverness, and that double-entendre doesn’t strike me as a sign of intelligence. I think the writer is most likely just truly honked off.

All in all, though, it seems like a real tempest in a teapot.

By: Dr. Horowitz

Dr. Horowitz — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:11:40 +0000

You should tell the wine blogger conference peeps that us wine blog readers need a good/easy way of aggregating your content. When I buy a TIME magazine, I know I’m getting a bunch of crappy articles, but at least I get a bunch of crappy articles together. Are editors in charge of aggregating content for their publications or does someone else in the journalism world do that?

Have you heard of JPEG magazine? JPEG magazine (http://www.jpgmag.com/about/howitworks.html), for example, has users submit pictures, has internet people vote on their favorite pics, and then a hard copy of the top photos gets published. Could the wine bloggers do this? I know there is google reader, but I guess when it comes down to it I’m too lazy to stay on top of my google reader–iTunes is hard enough to stay on top of.

ps-I can’t remember the last time I bought a TIME magazine (or is the “a” not required?)

By: Eric H

Eric H — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 20:19:32 +0000

Granted this is probably the cynic in me, but I wonder if this whole incident was orchestrated by Mr. Coren as part of a plan to brand himself as the Gordon Ramsey of restaurant critics. He might have seen the missing â€œaâ€ as an opportunity to write another entertainingly vitriolic response that he knew would make the rounds on the internet, and see far more eyeballs and garner more attention than the original review ever would have.

Perhaps the reason his explanation of how removing the â€œaâ€ messed up his joke seems like such a stretch is that he made it up after the fact as a good justification for such an extreme response.

If so, I will give Giles credit for a great strategy. If you are a restaurant and food critic and you want to stand out from all the others of your ilk in the world, how do you do it? Not an easy task. Gordon Ramsey is a great chef, but we all know his name because he has a talent for reducing adults to sobbing heaps when they overcook a steak, and that is much more entertaining than just, well, cooking a steak . It got him a couple of TV shows and international recognition. Giles may just be following in Ramseyâ€™s footprints.

By: acpfoto

acpfoto — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:20:42 +0000

Sounds as though the, “Professional” needs to ” bathe” prior to returning to work.

Yes, with an “e”:

Pronunciation: \ËˆbÄth\
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): bathed; bathÂ·ing
Etymology:
Middle English, from Old English bathian; akin to Old English bÃ¦th bath
Date: before 12th century

transitive verb 1 : moisten, wet 2 : to wash in a liquid (as water) 3 : to apply water or a liquid medicament to 4 : to flow along the edge of : lave 5 : to suffuse with or as if with light intransitive verb 1 : to take a bath 2 : to go swimming 3 : to become immersed or absorbed

this way the stink from his spew won’t offend any of his Subs.