There's a skit on SNL with James Franco about a guy on trial and his defense was that he couldn't have done it since he order pizza but a witness said he ordered 'za' and he insisted that logically 'za' HAD to refer to Lasagna (LaZAANya) and not pizza. I think that was the premise.
Yeah, SNL has done some really good things playing around with words and sentence structure that I used to love. Like Rich Hall's Sniglets, or just about everything Joe Piscopo used to say. There was another guy who used to get really creative with words too, I can't remember his name right now.
Somewhat of an inside joke, (not meant to be offensive): but I bet you'll never witness a member of the Melchizedek priesthood drinking from a Melchizedek sized champagne bottle.
Which is most likely why the decided on Biblical nomenclature in the first place. A little nose-thumbing to the religious community.
It was Norm MacDonald. What spurred my memory was a posting about him on the Notable Death Thread a few moments ago. Bizarre coincidence.
4 And thus did Bottle lay with Demi, and lo she begat Magnum, 5 who went into the land of the unbelievers and there verily caused them to retch and vomit, 6 until they were smitten into the dust by Quarter Bottle, who was a giant among his kind.
Had no idea bottles could come in such a range of magnanimous sizes. I thought rehoboam was large enough. Cheers! Spoiler
Ever try to pour from one of those bad boys? It's a two person job. I was at an event once where a somm was saber-cutting Jeroboams of... Veuve, maybe? She made it look easy.
OK, that's a quality joke to begin with, but adding the verse numbers and the red text, too? That's going the extra mile. Bravo, sir.
Thank you sir/madam/honored nonbinary member. I'm not a religious person, but I was raised amongst them and have dim remembrances of some of their customs and courtesies. Consider this the cargo-cult rendition
Heh, I just encountered the following sentence in a short story: "He brought with him from New York a crock of mustard, a jeroboam of champagne, cocktail napkins..." And a little bulb lit up in my mind as I remembered this thread. Hey! I know what a jeroboam is! Thanks, Homer!
Denouement...the final part of a play, movie, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved. Found by accident, but I can't wait to use it.
They're pretty rare and esoteric these days. I used to have some large formats in my wine program, but ditched them last year. And by "ditch" I mean I "drank" them or gave them away for staff contests.
I had to look this one up and I got “A granfalloon, in the fictional religion of Bokononism (created by Kurt Vonnegut in his 1963 novel Cat's Cradle), is defined as a "false karass". That is, it is a group of people who affect a shared identity or purpose, but whose mutual association is meaningless.”
When I was younger I misheard it as Don Perignon and assumed it had some Mafia associations (because I knew shit about Romance language titles of respect and thought that "don" just meant "mafia boss.")
I was wondering how many people it would take to pour the melchizedek? Or perhaps you’d have to give the construction crew a call and borrow some of their machinery. Like, one of these Spoiler
