The ‘Other’ ‘Other Thing’

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“THIGHLAND”

I posted a column yesterday entitled, “This, That and The Other Thing.”

https://around-the-block.com/2020/08/07/this-that-and-the-other-thing/

The “Other Thing” in that column commented on Donald Trump’s botching of the name of one our great National Parks, Yosemite.

I felt compelled today to follow up on that post with this one word:

THIGHLAND

And just to remind you, my dear readers, that ‘YO-se-MIGHT,’ ‘YO-se-min-NIGHT’ and ‘THIGHLAND’ are not simply infrequent verbal aberrations, or more to the point, ‘Trumperations,’ I leave you with this (courtesy of the Daily Show with Trevor Noah):

But don’t completely despair:

Published by Ted Block

Ted Block is a veteran “Mad Man,” having spent 45+ years in the advertising industry. During his career, he was media director of several advertising agencies, including Benton & Bowles in New York and Foote, Cone and Belding in San Francisco; account management director on clients as varied as Clorox, Levi’s and the California Raisin Advisory Board (yes, Ted was responsible for the California Dancing Raisins campaign); and regional director for Asia based in Tokyo for Foote, Cone where he was also the founding president of FCB’s Japanese operations. Ted holds a Bachelor’s degree in communications from Queens College and, before starting in advertising, served on active duty as an officer on USS McCloy (DE-1038) in the U.S. Navy. Besides writing Around the Block, Ted is also a guest columnist for the Palm Beach Post.

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