He’s Not A Dragon, People

“Man charged in honor student’s slaying”
 Since when are people “slayed?”
Newspapers love to use words and phrases that no one uses in regular discourse … like referring to someone who died in a car accident as a “fatal” or an issue creating a “firestorm of controversy.”
But “slaying” has to be the worst. You don’t slay people. You slay dragons [...]

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Road Signs of Bestiality

I’d just like to thank the cool people at the Highways Department for this great new sign on New Beetwell Street:

Got any good ones? Then let us know.

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Pecan

Pecan.
Say that out loud to yourself. How you pronounce the name of that nut says something about you … I think … although I’m not sure what exactly that might be.
Here in the deep South, I hear people say this different ways.
One — and I think I’m right about this — is distinctly deep South: [...]

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Fast Food Flyer Fastly Fails To Disappoint

As far as flyers go, well, when they drop through my letterbox they usually go straight into the recycle bin.
But not this one. It was too good an opportunity to miss. Understanding some of the stuff was easy, some a little bit more difficult.

That ones easy enough. I think it means “you [...]

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OK, How About Just ‘Drink?’

I was on vacation recently here along the South Carolina coast. We have quite a number of Northerners who visit here over the summer.
It’s rare that I’m sitting in a hot tub completely outnumbered by Yankees.
So, I hear some guy say, “Yeah, so I guess you’re not supposed to call it a ‘pop.’ They call [...]

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