Word: offing
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6 The Antler Hotel: Houses a half-scale model of James Rumsey's steamboat.
Until the Ice Cream Man called, I thought I was a phony. Writing, after all, isn't like computer programming or shoe cobbling. Everyone can write, so my job is like being a professional talker or doodler, the latter of which, oddly enough, the New Yorker employs. But when the...
Since I won, I have bragged about "Chunky Joe," my clever, Joycean appropriation of Ben-and-Jerry's semiotics and workaday poesy that got directly at the truth of coffee ice cream blended with white-chocolate flakes, toffee, almonds and chocolate chips. So proud was I that I headed upstate...
As soon as I walked into the store I found it extremely difficult not to tell everybody that I, and not my nonwriter friend, had penned the best ice cream name the store would ever have. I saw the store's other sad, poorly written flavors, like Peanut Butter in...
Then I noticed that the flavor was spelled "Chunky Jo," which pretty much ruined my clever coffee pun. When I started to complain to the 18-year-old at the counter, who seemed sweet though unaccustomed to people from New York City screaming at her about intellectual property law, she...