I know it’s futile to try and direct the discussion in a pit thread, but…
Can we let that old issue go? We hashed it out thoroughly many years ago, and I don’t see that any new insights are going to be added.
Usually you have to sneak up on him. But, it might help that the master will eat anything his cook puts in front of him.
As a minor note, Huerta may just have been plagiarizing (and misremembering) the title of Jerry Della Femina’s book on advertising: From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor.
Well, then, just do the math.
I see what you did there, but I think that RNATB is a “spelling bee” Asian. 
Yes, but “Sound it out, repeat as necessary, request a definition, ask what part of speech it is, request that it be used in a sentence, find out the language(s) of origin, see if there are alternate pronunciations, inquire about its root, then spell it correctly, all within a given time limit” just didn’t have the same ring to it.
Ｉｔ ｓｅｅｍｓ ｔｈａｔ ｗａｙ ａｔ ｆｉｒｓｔ， ｂｕｔ ｔｈｅｎ ｙｏｕ ｇｅｔ ｏｖｅｒ ｔｈｅ ｆｏｒｅｉｇｎｎｅｓｓ ｆａｃｔｏｒ ａｎｄ ｒｅａｌｉｚｅ ｔｈａｔ Ｊａｐａｎ’ｓ Ｖｅｎｕｔｉａｎ ｓｐｒｅａｄ ｉｓ ｔｈｅ ｓａｍｅ ａｓ ａｎｙｗｈｅｒｅ ｅｌｓｅ ｏｎ ｔｈｉｓ ｇｒｅｅｎ ｅａｒｔｈ． Ｗｈａｔ Ｊａｐａｎｅｓｅ ｇｉｒｌｓ ｄｏ ｈａｖｅ ｉｓ ａ ｍｏｎｏｐｏｌｙ ｏｎ ｃｕｔｅ ａｎｄ ｗｈａｔ ｓｅｅｍｓ ｔｏ ｂｅ ｏｎ ａｖｅｒａｇｅ ａ ｈｉｇｈｅｒ ｆｏｃｕｓ ｏｎ ｍａｋｅ－ｕｐ ａｎｄ ｆａｓｈｉｏｎ （ｃｏｍｐａｒｅｄ ｔｏ ｔｈｅ ａｖｅｒａｇｅ Ａｍｅｒｉｃａｎ， ＩＭＯ， ＹＭＭＶ．）
Oh, and their not short anymore, not really.
Well played, both of you. 
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I agree with Sage Rat’s masterful summation.
Here we go again.
Always nice to see things brought back around in a tidy little loop. 
Sage Rat couldn’t correct my grammar at this dist…
The true master has risen again!
Wait, this is one of those Burma Shave threads, right?
This.