I promised to share the grocery-related lore I picked up while researching yesterday's column about Trump's apparently clueless fascination with the very word groceries.

First, a few words about Urban Dictionary, a crowd-sourced lexical website that I like. Urban Dictionary is not always reliable, of course (anyone can post a definition, and anyone can vote it up or down), but it often brings things to light. The MIT Technology Review took a look at Urban Dictionary and didn’t find the aspect of it that appeals to me. MIT did find jocular definitions such as "beer, Possibly the best thing ever to be invented ever. I MEAN IT" and "coffee, a person who is coughed upon." Furthermore, observed MIT, "much of the content was offensive."

To be sure, Urban Dictionary definitions often seem to spring from the sniggering minds of adolescent males. Don’t be put off by these definitions, although they are even more squalid than the recent courtroom testimony of PDiddy's former girlfriend. (What is more disappointing than the recalled details of an orgy? Orgies, especially, that were forced, perverse, obsessive and paid-for. Not to mention, what was up with all that baby oil? How did anybody get traction?)