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Pertinent Question: Is Grimace Black? - A Contemplation Prompted by the TV Show Pysch

The Quirky Conversations of Psych: Is McDonald's Grimace Black?
I was watching Pysch on Demand tonight (whoo hoo exciting Saturday!) and Shawn and Gus were debating on the race of Grimace.

Gus insisted that Grimace was "a brother." Shawn said, "I'll give you Vin Diesel. But Grimace? No." Later in the episode, Gus declared that Grimace's name was "Grimace T. Jackson" thus proving he is black.
So fricken funny. I LOVE that show.

Research: So, What IS Grimace???
I googled "grimace is black" and got to this site, which was hilarious. Even the comments were awesome: http://www.gunaxin.com/what-is-grimace/11120

Here's a Twitter thread, the the McDonald's company even weighed in on:
https://twitter.com/torokoi/status/946179747104555013
Wikipedia entry - thorough, though not necessarily factual http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonaldland

Every Young Child in the Presence of Grimace: OMFGGGG NOOOO

I believe Grimace is not of any earthly r…

Suggested Names for Those Who Are Not a Millennial but Not Quite Gen X

What Do You Call the People Who Are in Gen X/Millennial Label Limbo? This graphic up there puts my age group squarely in Millennial, but there are a lot who put me as a young Gen-Xer.
I don't feel like I fully belong in either! There've been some fun-to-read pieces on this "microgeneration" who sit on the cusp of either Gen X or Millennial, and interesting monikers for us, too.

"Generation Jordan Catalano" is one, in reference to the short-lived but much beloved TV series "My So-Called Life" starring Claire Danes. So beloved, I think, because it captures that time period for those who were in high school/middle school during the height of the Alternative Music Grunge Era. Gen X is the most "Existential Crisis" of Generations. To be a teenager during the hey day of such malaise among the people slightly older than you is to double down on the Existential Crisis that is Teenagerhood. MSCL captured that "ugh"-ness of the time an…

What Is the Difference Between an Epithet and a Kenning?

Differentiating Between Epithets and Kennings Okay, let's try to differentiate between Epithets and Kennings. It's tough when this stuff is so similar! I'll provide the standard literary definitions of the two terms, give some common examples, discuss the nuanced differences, and then do an exercise myself!

What is an Epithet (in the literary sense)? Epithet (plural epithets) - the "literary" epithet definitions are as follows:
1. A term used to characterize a person or thing. The adjective "Terrible" in Ivan the Terrible.2. A term used as a descriptive substitute for the name or title of a person. The Young Pretender for Charles Edward Stuart.
What is a Kenning? Kenning (plural, kennings) is similar - a kenning is a kind of epithet, like a simile is a kind of metaphor; I'd say the difference is in directness.
Kenning- use of a roundabout phrase for a common thing, eg 'whale's land' for 'sea'. It was very common in Anglo-Saxon vers…

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