I can’t believe people actually think that the Vet commenting about WW eleven versus WW 2 was being serious? It’s call “pulling somebody’s leg” which is traditionally done with a straight face.
I believe the current PC term is “McIver.” That preserves the “creative spur of the moment solution” aspect without casting asparagus on any ethnic group or geographic region.
The other day, a lady friend of mine, in reference to modifying her home environment to better suit her lifestyle, used the term “toolbelt diva” as a verb, as in “I’m going to toolbelt diva something to fix that.”
Begging your pardon in advance for being compusive – can’t help it – it’s a compulsion! – but when a proper noun (“Google”) is used as another part of speech, i.e. a verb (“to google”) it isn’t capitalized. So whatever your intentions, you were grammatically correct not to capitalize it… .I am the grammarian about whom you have been warned… .
Also, I think Duchamp had the last laugh – he has now become enshrined in the very “art establishment” he spent a good deal of his career industriously (and gleefully) sending up.
It’s her character’s trademark. Zonker’s hairstyle hasn’t changed either.