That's very interesting. I think I saw a copy of The Shortcut in my local B&N Saturday eve. Hmm -- have to swing back by for another look.
Drunk books? Disaster!
Delaware sends some advice
on drying them out.
I gotta say, with this opening line:
One of the top prescription painkillers ... can be addictive
my first thought was, "Well, no shit. I'd like to see a painkiller that isn't addictive."
The city council and citizenry may support it, but I wonder if the Lousiana Attorney General will feel the same way? I'm not sure what they could prosecuted for, but I'm sure a clever attorney could come up with something.
This story ends with the other kid having been trampled by a horse? Holy cow. Subtle, it ain't.
"Resistance is useless! Bring on the vocabulary lesson!" he cried, all the while remembering this isn't his netspace.
OED's entry for sidekick has a note, saying it's a back-formation from the term sidekicker. They say it's from an O. Henry story in McClure's Mag, Feb 1903 ("Billy was my side-kicker in New York."). O. Henry (AKA William Sydney Porter) lived in Texas for a number of years before coming to New York, so he might've picked it up there. And OED requires dating terms from when they first appear in print, not oral tradition. Question is, how long would it've taken a cowboy slang term to migrate into respectable press?
p.s.: I am now extremely (and inexplicably) hungry for a kebab.
I can think of two ways.
An enthusiasist (read: someone looking to distract themselves from actually writing) will build a language. Someone less enthusiastic might run a name generator three or four hundred times and pull out the interesting looking ones.
the afternoon sun, the hot Georgia orb of fire
Awesome. I think I'll write dear Governor Perdue and suggest that as our new state motto. They could squeeze it in on the flag, right under the seal.
Anybody else see this off of Digby?
Justic Department concludes romance novelist doing research on the internet potential terrorist, bashes in her door and confiscates everything.
Why take her postage stamps? That I don't get.
Ah, I can see that. Don't touch bottled tea myself, but I'm not surprised to hear that it's all presweetened.
MKK - where do you live that only sweet tea is your only choice? In Atlanta, once reliable home of only sweet tea, I keep running into more and more restaurants serving only unsweetened.
And if you ask for sweet tea outside of the Southeast or Canada, your waitress will give you a puzzled look and say, "We don't have that." [pause] "What is that, anyway?"
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One night, George W. Bush is awakened by George Washington's ghost in the White House. Bush asks: "George, what is the best thing I could do to help the country?"
"Set an honest and honorable example, just as I did," Washington advises.
The next night, the ghost of Thomas Jefferson moves through the dark bedroom. "Tom," W asks, "what is the best thing I could do to help the country?"
"Cut taxes and reduce the size of government," Jefferson advises.
Bush isn't sleeping well the next night, and sees another figure moving in the shadows. It's Abraham Lincoln's ghost. "Abe, what is the best thing I could do to help the country?" Bush asks.
Abe answers: "Go see a play."
I like a little sugar in my iced tea, but if the spoon can stand in it, it's too sweet.
Bah. Not any worse than Coke or Pepsi, and besides, if your teeth aren't screaming for mercy with each mouthful, it's not sweet enough.
Skwid remarked:
Ice Tea (yet another regional dialectical variation that fascinates me is "Ice" vs. "Iced") should be brewed, then chilled over ice, then sweetened to the point of sugar supersaturation...
However, you can add more sugar to a hot liquid than to a cold liquid, even if you then cool down the hot liquid. That is true supersaturation. And that's why in Canada and the southeastern US they serve sweet tea.
Also eliminates spoon clanking.
Hmm. Trolling through the all-seeing, all-knowing WorldCat database, the best candidate that matches up is this book:McClellan, Elisabeth. History of American costume, 1607-1870: With an introductory chapter on dress in the Spanish and French settlements in Florida and Louisiana. New York: Tudor, 1937, 1942.This has the chief flaw of not exactly matching your particulars.
Larry,
You're right, and they do acknowledge that in the opening graf:Please note that after September 11, 2001, regular mail sent to a member's Washington, DC office may no longer be the best way to contact a member of Congress. Faxes get through, but expect many redials. Unless you have an email address for a staffer, forget about sending email directly. One method that does work, if your member uses it, is to send them email using the web-based form on their web site.I think the USPS and Congress are working on something to make the mail safe for congressional types again, which is why they haven't mothballed the "handwrite your letter" section. The rest of the specifics (mention bill number, etc.) are worth incorporating in emails, I think.
Jon, not Joe
For people trying to decide between phoning, emailing, and writing a letter, some advice on what technique works the best, what to include, etc..
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