nostr:npub1eeetax7xxyr7mem486lqayj4av7czytttp9swjwn6yry6sn790lqrve209 You remember the original ‘Burritos Supreme’ gag that Safire himself started leaning into, right? Long before the Onion resurfaced the form. He went overboard on ‘Attorneys General’, got razzed so heavy, he started acting as if he was joking about it being a bit all along with other examples. But he was seriously prescriptive, no laughing matter, regarding the OG AG example.

Hard to find his original, but there are lingering shadows of it in later columns that can be found.