I just found you on Substack and I love this post so much. I'll share it with my best friend who will appreciate it beyond measure. (Please go ahead and correct my comment ). 🥳
This was fun on a gray Ohio day. I love "West Wing," but it IS possible that occasionally that very verbal genius Aaron Sorkin was incorrect. But not often. I've been thinking of re-watching the series, given the election.
For the sake of clarity, and for those who read your posts on their phones: When I click on the headline, it takes me to the Substack app, not a browser window, and yes I can magically boop each footnote number, whereupon the note pops up in its own window, with an X to close it when I’m done reading it.
Please keep annotating your thoughts. The notes only add to the charm (and erudition) of your posts.
I’m certain that Marion Coatsworth-Haye of Marblehead would know the story of the missing “t” in Bartlet. Or her cousin, Helena Hodsworth Hooter-Tooter if Braintree.
This was one of the most delightful reads (on my laptop, in Chrome, so I could happily tap for footnotes with ease and read in comfort) I've enjoyed from your 'stack.
I just found you on Substack and I love this post so much. I'll share it with my best friend who will appreciate it beyond measure. (Please go ahead and correct my comment ). 🥳
I want us to invent a unit for measuring the appreciation of Substack posts.
Better Jed Barrett than Jed Clampett
Uh-oh … Bartlett!
Got my Amy confused with my Jed … a country western lament?
Love this one.
I guess Sorkin didn't want to let Bartlett be Bartlett.
This was fun on a gray Ohio day. I love "West Wing," but it IS possible that occasionally that very verbal genius Aaron Sorkin was incorrect. But not often. I've been thinking of re-watching the series, given the election.
For the sake of clarity, and for those who read your posts on their phones: When I click on the headline, it takes me to the Substack app, not a browser window, and yes I can magically boop each footnote number, whereupon the note pops up in its own window, with an X to close it when I’m done reading it.
Please keep annotating your thoughts. The notes only add to the charm (and erudition) of your posts.
That voice! It’s impossible to not read this and hear her voice. Monday morning made.
This would not count except as a variant, but I loved how Disney's Kim Possible routinely described her younger (twin) brothers as "the tweebs."
So the original Bartlett (signer of D of I) has a "pear" of t's at its end; seems appropriate.
I am wondering when dwarf and dwell, not to mention dwale and dwine, will show up in Wordle.
Already used: dwarf, dwelt, dwell; still available: dwale, dwine, dweeb.
Overwritten, yes. Although our principal objection to The West Wing (which we generally watched and liked) was that everyone spoke in the same tone.
Hmmm. Dwelling and Dwelt as parts of the verb to dwell might reasonably be called 'variants' - but dweller and (here in Scotland) dwelling are nouns.
I love this so much and I am here for all the West Wing deep dives
I’m certain that Marion Coatsworth-Haye of Marblehead would know the story of the missing “t” in Bartlet. Or her cousin, Helena Hodsworth Hooter-Tooter if Braintree.
Thank you sir! Elegant and interesting post
This was one of the most delightful reads (on my laptop, in Chrome, so I could happily tap for footnotes with ease and read in comfort) I've enjoyed from your 'stack.