"Every gross brained idiot is suffered to come into print." ~ Thomas Nash (1592)
"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing."
--Archilochus
Glenn Reynolds:
"Heh."
Barack Obama:
"Impossible to transcend."
Albert A. Gore, Jr.:"An incontinent brute."
Rev. Jeremiah Wright:"God damn the Gentleman Farmer."
Friends of GF's Sons:"Is that really your dad?"
Kickball Girl:"Keeping 'em alive until 7:45."
Hired Hand:"I think . . . we forgot the pheasant."
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And the bonus question is, "How many G&S readers get it?"
A surprisingly large number. One correspondent, during whose entire lifetime Bill Shatner has been famous for being Bill Shatner, remarked, "I love that the joke isn't watered down to make it accessible to anyone else."
So, let's see, that would be you, me, likely Hired Hand, and an under-aged Trekkie. That makes four (4).