peterman

A Peterman was someone tasked with finding deposits of saltpeter for the production of fertlizer and gunpower.

A lot of NYC food vendors had this design theme as well as the infamous (Seinfeld) J Peterman catalog.

The Peterman bus tour was a meta joke because the real Kramer was running a Seinfeld bus tour in real life.

Still, all of the doctors they visited, Dale Peterman said, cleared Sam to run.

It's like listening to PT Barnum read the J Peterman catalog.

Is this not basically the concept of the J Peterman catalog?

For whatever it's worth (perhaps not much?), I was actually asked about this three-decade-old post (!) recently on the Peterman Pod[0], which allowed for a slightly more nuanced discussion.

Elaine insists she has never taken drugs, but when a frantic Kramer shows up at her office begging her to let him use her normal-pressure shower, Peterman mistakes him for a drug addict and fires Elaine.

It seems to me that there’s no special virtue in the specific form that the mass publishing market took over the last century or however long: my local grocery store chain’s division producing weekly newspaper circulars probably employed more people than J Peterman has.

The Elaine Benes character on "Seinfeld" worked there, and had to deal with the kooky habits of the Mr Peterman character.

The J Peterman catalog is still around around (at least, online) and approaches satire in its selection of goods (mostly clothing) that assiduously conveys "casual, interesting, old-money wealth".

Peterman-esque recipes laden with product placement and somehow incorporating a listicle - as long as they get their recipe.

Both of Greenland's largest glaciers (Jakobshavn and Peterman) are growing at record rates, about 1km/year.

Peterman is notorious for its purple prose, it's kind of the opposite of DAK.