On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:29:22 -0400, Professor Bubba
> wrote:

>In article
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>David > wrote:
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>> On Mar 13, 11:43*pm, Tony Calguire > wrote:
>> > Professor Bubba > wrote
>> > d:
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>> > > I'd never heard of this woman or her review until about twenty minutes
>> > > ago. *Finding it online was trivial. *Jesus, *this* is what people are
>> > > talking about? *This reads exactly the same as dozens of restaurant
>> > > reviews I've seen in the small local paper here. *It's strictly by the
>> > > numbers. *From all the buzz, I'd thought the reviewer had gone off on
>> > > Olive Garden in some cranky way not inconsistent with the reviewer
>> > > being 85 years old.
>> >
>> > It's funny because she's describing things the rest of the world knew 20
>> > years ago. *Imagine if she wrote about Macdonalds as if it were that new
>> > Scottish place in town.
>>
>> Wait until they bring back the McRib.
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>She may be describing things about the Olive Garden that the rest of
>the world knew twenty years ago, but what I'm saying is that what she
>wrote, and the way she wrote it, is typical for a small-town paper.
>They write the same way about every restaurant, chain or not. There's
>nothing remarkable about this review at all.

I can see why people find it amusing and/or charming.