Quote Originally Posted by Mad Lews View Post
To the Honorable Mr. Dean,
May I call you Howard?
As long as you don't follow it with "the Duck".

As anyone who has experienced life's pleasures for more than a few decades will tell you, the word "Album" is a colloquial term for a "Phonographic Album"
So it is...at least for those who wish to broadcast their lack of education to the general public.

(not pornographic you degenerate)
Yikes, I already had by rubber gloves, motor oil and jack-in-the box ready to go.

Even someone as repressed and passive aggressive as, oh I don’t know, say yourself, should not require a complete definition when a single word might suffice.
It is true that a single word should suffice. In this case the word "album" should be replaced by the word "record". This, as any "well-educated" individual (such as yourself) should know, is the proper colloquial term for what you are referring.

One of the lessons we (Mad and I) are trying to instill in our star pupil is an economy of words. This implies a shared vocabulary with the reading public.
I do hope you teach him the importance of word economics. Of course, it helps to have the right word or the economy breaks down and turns into Mexico.

While you may be technically correct, in an anally retentive kind of way, I would no more insist upon the words phonographic album than I would have need to say 'motion picture show' for a movie or 'foppish dithering dilettante' for a certain literary critic of our mutual acquaintance.
Are you asking me out for drinks?

I do hope this clarifies our misunderstanding.
You had me at "foppish".

Most respectfully yours
Lews.
Stop looking at me like that...it makes me shy.