Delete your Internet history each time before you visit the site (temporary sites and cookies). If you’ve ever visited an airline or travel site, it was probably to get a price on a particular trip. You get the price and go about your business. Maybe you decide to sleep on it before you pull the [...]
As mentioned in an earlier post, I’m something of a word nerd, which is why I was a little confused when I came across a colonial recipe for Thanksgiving turkey in a coffee table book. It said: “Behead the foul ‘ere you pluck a feather…” Now, I had heard the term “behead” before, but, for [...]
I’m a word nerd. You might say I’m “a Werd.” Then again, if you said that, people would probably assume that you were saying “word,” and just be confused. That’s how I know that the New Oxford American Dictionary has recently unveiled their 2009 Word of the Year. Oxford Dictionary doesn’t reveal the process by which it’s chosen. The highly-secretive, Mason-esque event [...]
I can be a word nerd sometimes. I think it stems from when I was a chubby, lonely kid. I didn’t have many human friends so I spent most of my time reading books…and spinning in circles until I was dizzy; it was a really cheap high. Besides, we live in a world now where [...]
Recently, my wife and her friend took a vacation to New Orleans. When she returned, she brought back two bricks of Community Coffee. Now, folks, I’m something of a coffee aficionado, by which I mean I drink a lot of it. I’m not a coffee snob; I’ll just as happily guzzle a cup of $.99 [...]
Hiya, friends. I came across a little brain teaser that I’d like to share with you. Via this Blog, I will attempt to read your mind. Ready? As you scroll down at a leisurely pace, answer the following questions as quickly as you can: What is: [...]
You know, rarely, in polite conversation, is it ever discussed where it goes when we go, but in this Blog, we’re going to go there. Because today, I’d like to celebrate what I, for one, consider to be a much-maligned municipal service, the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District or M.M.S.D. I say much-maligned because it’s a service [...]
If you’re on Facebook (which I am), no doubt you’ve been tagged to share 25 Random Things about yourself. This chain tag is so prolific that Time Magazine has actually covered it. It has all the charm of a chain letter except that a) you know exactly who sent it to you, b) there’s no promise [...]
As I was making breakfast this morning and cracking the eggs into the pan, I got to thinking. Whenever I buy eggs, I like to buy the Extra Large eggs. Maybe it’s because I’m a big guy and everything else I buy is Extra Large, too. But then I started to wonder: “How do we [...]
“Three sheets to the wind” is a phrase that is commonly used to describe drunkenness. Like most phrases and idioms of today, it has a nautical origin. Sailors have their own language. It’s as if, when they were babies, their parents carried them around, pointed at things and said words that had nothing at all [...]
