re: #126 Achilles Tang

I’m willing to learn, but I’ve used that phrase as recently as yesterday. To me it’s the equivalent of saying “let’s call an ass an ass”.

Has the meaning changed while I aged?

It’s a perfectly innocent term when used among Norwegian-americans in Lake Wobegone.

Context and intent—in this case Cantor will find wiggle room. (Snicker, snicker—He said ‘spade’.)