"When he told me that he had never attended college, I was, frankly, gobsmacked, meaning that I was astounded to the utmost degree of astonishment," wrote Larry in a March 2013 post, where he felt to need to provide his own dictionary definition of "gobsmacked."
Of course this is all the while writing about a very serious issue which no-one dared (and which no-one still dares) to discuss:
Black and White race relations in America.By the way: here is the (online) Merriam-Webster definition of gobsmacked:
chiefly British, informal: overwhelmed with wonder, surprise, or shock: astoundedI would rather a macho "gobsmack than a feline flabbergast.