Just heard an ad on the radio where a local musician proclaims his ears to be his “bread and butter.”
This sounds inconvenient and unsanitary.
READY TO PLAY! Or not.
I love it when sportsball teams say they’ll “have to come ready to play.”
What ELSE did they think the whole “putting on uniforms and traveling” thing was about?
Team 1: puts on uniforms, travels to meet other team
Team 1: “So, what do you wanna do now?”
Team 2: “I dunno. Hey, how about we go out to grab a bite somewhere?”
Team 1: “Sounds good.”
WORK those words!
“There’s a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.”
— Dorothy Parker
Some weres need hyphens. Others do not.
On a friend’s Facebook page, we’ve been discussing whether various werecreatures should be hyphenated or not. I usually don’t hyphenate unless it would put two vowels in a row. I WOULD hyphenate were-elephant, were-umbrella, were-aardvark.
Although, as I noted, if you’re a were-aardvark, you have bigger problems than whether your condition is spelled with a hyphen or not.
… but we use the instruments we have, and play them the best we can…
Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Fraught
My word of the day is fraught.
“Fraught with… what?” you might ask.
No. Just: fraught.
Calling my bluff
When people try to call my bluff, I tell them “Go ahead. It’s been there for a million years. I’d like to see you get it to move.”
Mwahaha, or MWAHAHA?
Listen, Autocorrect. If I’d intended to write MWAHAHA! instead of Mwahaha!, I would have written MWAHAHA! in the first place.
Pizza delivery – before, during, and after the game
I heard an ad on the radio for a local pizza place. They advertised delivery “before, during, and after the game!”
Then I started to worry. “But what if there’s no game on? WHAT THEN?!?” – until I realized that they didn’t say how LONG after the game they stopped delivery.
After all, it’s ALWAYS either before or after SOME game or another. Right now, it’s 17 1/2 hours before the SU basketball game on Sunday.
And they didn’t specify WHAT game. “Hey, I was just about to start a new game of chess by mail! I WANT MY PIZZA DELIVERED!
(Doesn’t matter what you call them. They won’t come when they’re called, anyway.)
Note to people on TV and radio: if you’re talking about a bunch of hidden weapons, cache is pronounced “cash,” not cachet (\ka-ˈshā).