The Möbius Strip

One thing will always lead us to another.

Plowing through the Tweets from @SarahLyall of the NYT doing a Don Dunphy-like round-by- round report from ringside at the Madison Square Garden Westminster Dog Show, in which she revealed the abject crowd disappointment that Daniel, a golden retriever,

didn't get Best in Show (a golden retriever has never been Best in Show), and was defeated by Siba, a French Poodle, who if I was in a state of incandescence, I would mistake for my neighbor's topiary, I finally got to the end of the feed and came across a retweet she made from @MatthewGarrahan.

(That a golden retriever has never been a Best in Show is a serious misgiving. I've never seen a French Poodle who looks like Siba in harness getting a blind person across Sixth Avenue at 23rd Street, hard by the building housing the Institute for the Blind.)

@MatthewGarrahan must have been relating an anecdote about newspaper corrections, when he Tweeted:

Trying to ban "iconic" and other superfluous adjectives from FT copy, [Financial Times] which brings to mind the 1980s intro by an English sports reporter. In his dispatch from Israel covering an England game, he wrote that he was in "Bethlehem, birthplace of the legendary Jesus Christ"

Which of course brings to mind the legendary sports reporter Dick Schaap who in the early '70s told a network news audience that Riva Ridge and Secretariat were the two most famous stablemates since Joseph and Mary.

Dick took A LOT of flak from that one. But not from anyone with sense of humor.

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