For the most part, the eaters are intelligent, middle-aged, working-class eccentrics who've had the unlikely good fortune to find a niche — and some measure of fame — in a formerly undiscovered (or already discovered but formerly unprofitable) aptitude for ingesting enormous amounts of food.
At each step formerly competing entities discovered that cooperation could return better outcomes than endless cycles of betrayal and revenge.
Poor Columbus, formerly revered for discovering the New World, now has Native American protests on the holiday named after him.
Grockit's founder, Farb Nivi, formerly taught Princeton Review teachers and discovered that students learn best when they teach one another, he said.
"When I saw him, my heart just sank," said Dennis Robinson, 51, a formerly homeless Army veteran who discovered Mr. Guilfoyle's body.
Admittedly, some of Ostrovsky's less familiar oeuvre is finally being discovered here – Jacqui Honess-Martin (formerly of Cheek by Jowl) is bringing Ostrovsky's Without a Dowry to London next year, for example – but it's the tip of the iceberg.
The epithet refers to Myanmar (formerly Burma) where it was discovered.
