Off the Mark by Mark Parisi for February 15, 2022

He’s a sham-pagne!

But you still sparkle.

Never could trust Ancestry. Identical twins got tested, came out as two different backgrounds.

Vouvray is on my doorstep…

You are really from Château Knockoff.

You were purchased at a Walmart, deal with it.

The elites (the woke) will (or are trying to) make you feel like you are not as good as them.

We have come a long way from Shakespeare’s “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose/ By any other name would smell as sweet,” [Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Scene II]. Juliet is telling Romeo that a name is just a name, a convention with no meaning behind it, that names themselves do not hold worth nor meaning; they simply act as labels to distinguish one thing from another. We now use names/labels to establish the quality of an object or person. ’It’s a [insert name brand], it must be good!’

At least sparkling wine is still sparkling wine. Can’t say the same about honey, olive oil, or organic cotton – and probably a lot of other things.

Just like if it’s not from the Frankenstein region of Germany, it’s just a “sparkling monster.”

Check with Julio Gallo.

From the trailerpark region of Wisconsin.

Horror of horrors! MISLABELED! How could his parents have NOT TOLD him!