Off the Mark by Mark Parisi for February 15, 2022

He’s a sham-pagne!

But you still sparkle.

Never could trust Ancestry. Identical twins got tested, came out as two different backgrounds.

You are really from Château Knockoff.

You were purchased at a Walmart, deal with it.

The elites (the woke) will (or are trying to) make you feel like you are not as good as them.

We have come a long way from Shakespeare’s “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose/ By any other name would smell as sweet,” [Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Scene II]. Juliet is telling Romeo that a name is just a name, a convention with no meaning behind it, that names themselves do not hold worth nor meaning; they simply act as labels to distinguish one thing from another. We now use names/labels to establish the quality of an object or person. ’It’s a [insert name brand], it must be good!’

At least sparkling wine is still sparkling wine. Can’t say the same about honey, olive oil, or organic cotton – and probably a lot of other things.

Just like if it’s not from the Frankenstein region of Germany, it’s just a “sparkling monster.”

Check with Julio Gallo.

From the trailerpark region of Wisconsin.

Horror of horrors! MISLABELED! How could his parents have NOT TOLD him!