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  • Dave Wilton

Dave Wilton

09 Sep 2026 • 2 min read
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Three jars of homemade marmalade labeled “Seville Orange Marmalade January 2009”

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Pen-and-ink grotesque of two men, mouths agape, driving through a desert toward an abstract city, bats flitting about them

gonzo

9 September 2026 The word gonzo is inextricably linked to writer Hunter S. Thompson, famed for his style dubbed gonzo journalism. In Thompson’s usage, gonzo is a highly subjective, first-person style, characterized by distorted and exaggerated facts. Thompson first used the word in print on 11 November 1971
09 Sep 2026 7 min read
Painting of two women in 19th-century dress drinking tea and talking
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tea (gossip) (paid)

07 Sep 2026 5 min read
Photo of numerous bikini-clad women posing with a man; the word “Booty” appears at the top in large letters

booty / booty call

7 September 2026 Booty is actually two different words, one meaning plunder or loot and the other referring to sex. Booty, referring to plunder or loot, of is uncertain origin. It was borrowed from some European language, but there are any number of potential candidates. It’s cognate with the
07 Sep 2026 6 min read
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