Classical Education Shifts

From this column by Bryan Burwell in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, we find how educated allusions have shifted:

Who could leave with the Cardinals and Astros engaged in a highly entertaining, emotionally draining contest that had more lead changes and mood swings than Sybil?

Do you think he means the oracle or the Sally Field TV movie?

What? You don’t know what either of them means without clicking the links? You damn whelp, go read IMAO or something. Get offa my lawn!

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