We’ve been talking about insults to the intelligence, and this week we conclude our discussion of adjectives.
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This week’s calendar entry is “gull/gall.”
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From John Skelton’s 1528 volume entitled “Replycacion agaynst Certayne Yong Scolers”:
As touchyng the Tetrycall [severe] Theologisacion of these demy-diuines and Stoicall studiantes and frisca-ioly yonkerkyns … . moche better bayned [banned?] than brayned basked and bathed in their wylde burblyng and boyling blode Feruently reboyled with the infatuate flames of their rechelesse youthe and wytlesse wontonnesse enbrased and enterlased with a … moche fantasticall frenesy of their insensate sensualyte.
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Upon watching the video I realized that of course I knew this song! I just hadn’t remembered the title or the name of the group performing it. My wife and I were struck by the early-Beatles look they sported.
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