A friend of mine from our Baptist church and I recently took at trip and we stayed the night at the house of a Baptist couple. By ‘night’ I mean ‘four hours.’ Anyway, we got up the next morning anxious to get back on the road. Our hostess was insistent on fixing us something for […]
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Month: August 2009
One malaprop that drives me crazy is when people say, “Put your John Henry on this.” What they intend to say is, “Put your John Hancock on this.” This idiom comes from John Hancock, the last signer of the Declaration of Independence, who signed his name in a large, flourishing script. John Henry, however, is […]
You can’t call it Swine Flu anymore. It’s H1N1, ever since U.S. pork producers lobbied to have it changed. The difference between the terms ‘Swine Flu’ and ‘H1N1’ is that Swine Flu just rolls off the tongue, while Aitch One En One does not. I therefore propose the following pronunciation for the overhyped malady: pronounce […]
Last Saturday I went to JoeCon, the annual G.I. Joe convention, with my girls, one of my students, and Nooby. It was pretty good, but (not to denigrate it), it was just a toy show. We got some sweet stuff and we got to meet Larry Hama, and he was pretty cool. While JoeCon rates […]
“Upstairs noodles?”
Okay, I needed a new phone because my phone was crapping out on me. I started looking at phones on the T-Mobile website a few weeks ago and I narrowed it down to about 6 that fit my criteria and that I liked the looks of. I then went to the T-Mobile store here in […]
adjective, pronounced phonetically. I learned this word from my wife, who I suppose coined it, as I haven’t seen it anywhere else. It means “at a wrong angle, misaligned, uneven, out of level, out of plumb, and/or out of square.” UPDATE: one of my readers pointed out that woppyjarred appears to be a corruption of […]
As long as I could remember my Dad always drove American cars, so it was a great surprise when my uncle mentioned that my Dad and his twin brother had once owned a Volkswagen Beetle–for a short time. “They were coming around a long curve on our gravel road. Our neighbor and his wife were […]
My Dad told us he once worked at a potato chip plant. My brothers and I were fascinated at the prospect of working at such a magical place. “Did they let you eat any of the chips?” we asked. “They let us eat all we wanted,” he replied. We were completely in awe. “They knew that […]
I love to read. In fact besides cooking I would have to say that reading is my favorite past-time. I was introduced to the Stephanie Plum series, some years back, by a friend of mine. Since then I have awaited each new novel with anticipation. In June I picked up number 15 in the series and […]