Last week, Steve and I got into it pretty good ON PIT ROW. No surprise there. This time it was about whether or not the Bristol night race is a wild card race. I say yes. Steve says, emphatically, no.
Steve is wrong, of course, but maybe this is a matter of semantics. Bristol is legendary for big wrecks that often take out some of the best cars. There from came the legend of the wild card. The dictionary has this for
- B/R Ticket Guide
1. Of, constituting, based on, or of the nature of a legend.
2.
a. Celebrated in legend.
b. Extremely well known; famous or renowned.
The problem comes here. The Thesaurus has these two options for legend...
known—apprehended with certainty; “a known quantity”; “the limits of the known world”; “a musician known throughout the world”; “a known criminal”
unreal—lacking in reality or substance or genuineness; not corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria; “ghosts and other unreal entities”; “unreal propaganda serving as news”
Steve is still wrong. So is the Thesaurus.
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