I was up early today and decided it had been too long since a good dose of headlines. Some of these are my usual too pointless to be called news and/or hysterically funny and some I just wanted to comment on. Our first batch comes from CNN, today’s bringer of the most pointless.
Retiring soldier eats [...]
Bolt the lock and you’ve secured something. Bolt in general and you’re running as fast as you can.
You can buckle up and fasten something or buckle down and fall apart. So when someone says, “I buckled,” what did he really do?
You can weather the storm, or endure, or something can be weathered, or eroded. Endure, erode. Some of our brains go through both at once, don’t they?
Merriam-Webster makes me happy. Ravel means both “to separate or undo the texture of” and “to become entangled or confused.” Ravel is my new favorite word. I might name my next pet Ravel.
According to Merriam-Webster, clip means “to encompass” or “hold in a tight grip” and “to cut or cut off with or as if with shears.” So you bring it together and cut it apart. I love English.
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1 : occurring twice a week
2 : occurring every two weeks
Maybe it’s just me, but there’s a bit of a difference there. For more fun, bimonthly says it’s twice a month and every two months. So technically, an article that comes out every two weeks is both biweekly and bymonthly while also not [...]
I haven’t done one of these in a long time due to taking care of my mother, but today I needed a laugh and found it, as usual, on the mainstream media websites. Here’s the batch!
From MSNBC.com comes this absolute comedy goldmine:
‘Jealous wife’ charged in fatal genitals fire
It might not be funny to the [...]
MSNBC has won the headlines game hands down today. I think they actually tried to be odd this morning. But first, a headline from CBS that made me laugh:
Jerusalem Primps, Bracing For Bush Visit (CBS)
Bracing for a visit sounds like something bad is about to happen and they are trying to prepare for it. Typically [...]
