Care for a drink?

Hmmm…would you like a hand shandy? Oooh, suit you sir.
Bet you’ve had one today already, sir?
Euphemisms are great…even if you don’t know what they mean. That’s what makes them all the more fun.

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Either You Can Or You Can’t

I couldn’t care less whether it rains today or not.
That means that if it rains or it doesn’t, I really have no room to care any less than I do either way.
Now, if I said I could care less — which we hear so often — then what’s really the point? If we can care [...]

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Lead Swingers Wanted

Somebody accused me of swinging the lead. I get it a lot…but then my email address does start with idleman…
“It means skiving, being idle, avoiding work. It comes from the days when depth soundings on ships were taken with a lead weight on a line. The lazy leadsman would sit idly swinging the lead [...]

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Opposites?

Blow being the opposite to suck, has an entirely different meaning. Or does it?
For years I’ve heard people saying this band sucks or that car sucks, so recently when I heard someone saying a band blew, I assumed they meant the band was really good.
Apparently, this isn’t the case at all because for something [...]

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Like It Or Not

“You know, it’s like she doesn’t care. Like, I mean, she really doesn’t care. It’s like when I get these feelings for her and, like, she doesn’t give them back.”
Can we, like, please stop saying ‘like’ so much?
And while I’m at it, if I’m being totally honest with you, I always thought honesty was [...]

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Up Or Down?

What’s the difference between “uptown” and “downtown?”
“I’m going uptown to do some banking.”
“I’m going downtown to have a drink.”
I think that might be it there. The difference between formal and informal.
Or not.

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Outta Juice

All the stuff to do with rising fuel costs after Hurricane Katrina got me thinking as to how I like it when I hear people talk about ‘gas.’
Here, we’re quite lazy as well.
We don’t call gasoline gas though, we call it petrol and even that’s a shortened word. I like the sound of the [...]

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Oh gosh, drat, blow and flipping heck!!!!

We all know words lose their strength of meaning with overuse.
It comes as no surprise then, that a “secondary secondary school is to allow pupils to swear at teachers – as long as they don’t do so more than five times in a lesson. A running tally of how many times the f-word has been [...]

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