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comment by kleinbl00

Pretty sure the idea that it was any other way traces to Samuel Johnson, a blowhard that is mostly useful as a bellwether to determine if you're talking to a fuckwad. If they quote Samuel Johnson, they are.





b_b  ·  3026 days ago  ·  link  ·  

A couple summers ago I visited a distillery on The Isle of Skye in northern Scotland. The walls of the visitor center were adorned with quotes from Samuel Johnson, as he apparently spent a lot of time on Skye. In a nod to what douchebags they were making of themselves by decorating their walls with S quotes, one of the them simply read, "The weather here is not pleasant."