Wednesday, December 11, 2019
Self-explanatory Scotch
Haven't done a SES in a while. Self-explanatory sentences, or one-sentence biographies, are short phrases that tersely and concisely contain an entire life or culture.
Here's a good one from today's ZH clickbait. Along with ductaped non-bananas, rare booze is going up up up up up in "price". Obviously this booze is undrinkable. The bottles might as well contain water because nobody will ever be allowed to open or test them. "Value" arises solely from name and provenance.
Here's the SES:
Becky Paskin, a scotch consultant,
No need to finish the sentence. The fact that we have scotch consultants finishes our culture.
Labels: SES
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