Sure Quickdraw McGraw was the fastest-shootingest cowboy you ever saw. We won't take issue with the fact that he was neither a cow nor a boy nor technically a cowboy, since he was sheriff. Living in the modern era has conditioned us to cognitive dissonance. But what was so high-faluting about Quickdraw? Was he pompous or pretentious or pedantic? Just the opposite. Did he ever once say, "Hey, Baba Louie, do you prefer Verdi to Pucchini?" or "Say, pardner, you shouldn't be drinking a Chablis with that Chateaubriand; why not try this Beaujolais?"
Theme song-writers with their deference to rhyme over meaning might attempt to claim irony, and yet they continue to draw their pay -- heedless of the Beagletarian conundrum worldwide.
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