Some of that mastodon meat is in the essays—tennis, teens, television—and some of its manner, too—foot-notery, abbreviations, acronymania.

The old English proverb, “Good wine needs no brush,” grew out of this custom of hanging a bush to the ale stake.

Scott, who runs the Classic and promotes me here, said I was wrong about the heckler being the alpha male of the sport fan group. He said the alpha male would have money, cars, women and be silent. The heckler was a kind of delta male, the jester to the king alpha male. He would spend his life in the orbit of power, trailing it, circling it, but never achieving it.

Some bacteria occasionally have a sexlike process, or conjugation […]