Some words are seldom said. When’s the last time you heard someone say “akimbo”? I might be the only person I’ve ever heard say it, and that was because I made a point of it. As a boy, I got many of my “big words” from comic books. As a result, for years, until I …
Category: Humor
Say, Ain’t It Funny How Time Slips Away?
I was just thinking – well, on and off, actually, for several days – about things people used to do and say. And don’t anymore. When’s the last time you heard the term “Red China”? That used to be short for the People’s Republic, back before it started supplying Walmart. “Nationalist China” sounded important, but …
Just Why Would Saddles Blaze?
Nothing sidetracks a morning like the discovery that “Blazing Saddles” is playing on IFC. This blog would be finished, undoubtedly on a different topic, if not for Lillie Von Shtupp, the Teutonic Titwillow. “Can’t you see this is the last act of a desperate man?” “I don’t care if it’s the first act of ‘Henry …
Time Passages
It won’t be long until proper names will mean nothing. The Big 10 will have 18 teams in football and 22 in other sports. The Big 12 will have eight schools. USC of Los Angeles will join the Atlantic Coast Conference, and USC of Columbia will be in the Mountain West. The House of Representatives …
Sometimes I Can’t Believe I Even Participate
This is just another Sunday, no better or worse than any other. Here are just a few tweets and posts that descended across my social-media timelines today:Looking for advice to get gasoline odor out of car capet. I goggled it and got everything from coffee grounds to Febreeze. Any suggestions?Febreze is handy, but I’d try …
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