I guess we have Mike and Ike to thank for the growing gay civil rights movement.
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This is the beginnings of a dictionary that I and a friend started to compile, circa mid 1990s. It was inspired by a person that we knew who mangled the English language so horribly that we often couldn’t [more...]
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Throwing up Latin signs in the station
A train station in Wallsend, UK is posting signs in English and Latin as a way of calling attention to their ancient history, according to the Guardian newspaper. But the sign for the “way out” has been [more...]
March 16, 2003
What’s up, doc?
I’m watching a Doris Day movie that’s been on TiVo for a week or so, waiting patiently: “My Dream is Yours,” from 1949. It’s about a New York girl who goes to L.A. hoping to become a [more...]
August 21, 2004
