“You were apple-and-oranging me!”
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Category: humor
“Mayo is a poor life choice, man.”
HP? Brother? Konica-Minolta? Whatever it is, it’s not as cool as:
“To the King’s favor quite restored again, Reynard sets forth with all that lordly train, Upon his pious journey to be shriven,— Much the same road that Lawyers go to Heaven;—” —from Reynard the Fox
Elsa and I were discussing portmanteaus the other night (the word, not the trunk). Hangry is one of my favorites. But I think this may be one of the finest: Trumpertantrum. I assumed one of the media outlets had coined the phrase, but it turns out to be attributed directly to Ted Cruz (or, perhaps, […]
“Valerius Maximus wrote that he [Aeschylus] was killed outside the city by a tortoise dropped by an eagle which had mistaken his head for a rock suitable for shattering the shell of the reptile. Pliny, in his Naturalis Historiæ, adds that Aeschylus had been staying outdoors to avoid a prophecy that he would be killed […]