“I guess I’m at the bottom of the universe right now.”
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Faith, Books, and Stuff
I don’t know how long people have been mishearing lyrics to songs; I guess as long as there have been songs. Of course ‘Excuse me while I kiss this guy,’ from Jimi Hendrix’s Purple Haze is probably the most famous. For years a female I won’t mention thought that song in Austin Powers was Secret […]
I have long despised bananas. Maybe ‘despised’ is too harsh, but I certainly was not fond them. Before July I only ate maybe four bananas a year, just whenever I got a potassium-deficiency-induced craving. Since being diagnosed with diverticulitis, I have changed my diet significantly for the better, and eat 1-2 bananas a day. But […]
To be stuck sitting on the bench during a baseball game.
Several years ago our church purchased a new (to us) bus. We had finally outgrown our 15 passenger van, and due to the cost of insurance to even own the thing, let alone drive it, we decided to sell it. We parked it out in front of the church with a phone number and a […]
I first heard this idiom last year some time from a woman at work. At first I thought it meant something vaguely dirty, so I figured I better look it up. It simply means to do a hasty job, or to do a job with the most minimal effort. It’s funny that I first heard […]
To do a great job and/or perform a loyal service. “He did a real yeoman’s job on that patio.” UPDATE: ‘yeoman’ is pronounced YO-mun, not YEE-O-MAN.
And it is nasty.
I used to work for the late Tom Runge of Ace R/C. Since Ace was a small company, you often got pulled off of your regular job to help do any number of things like driving people to the airport or unloading heavy boxes of catalogs. One day I was helping Tom and several older […]
YOOS-uh-fruct. n., the right to enjoy the use of another’s property, apart from wasting or destroying it. “It was the bridegroom’s duty and interest to see that the dowry was duly paid. He enjoyed the usufruct of it during his life, and not unfrequently it was employed….” –Archibald Sayce, Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs. It is an […]