lost in translation

Mark Jones encountered an intriguing item on the menu in a Dutch restaurant.

One of the two starters was 'duck's udders'. After checking the Dutch original, rather than the tourist version of the menu, I discovered it was 'eendenborst' or duck breast. I chose the salmon nevertheless.

- Sic! World Wide Words

son: do you know about this?

Police in Syracuse NY, watched as a drug deal went down: the buyer got a $50 bag of crack cocaine, and paid for it with $10 in cash and half of a slaughtered pig. When confronted, Angelo Colon, 45, admitted that he had paid for drugs before with pig meat, and that the current buy was to help celebrate since a relative had just been released from jail. He was charged with misdemeanor possession of a controlled substance. (Syracuse Post-Standard)

the place has changed

Clayton is where mama Burrell and Uncle Schley used to live

I agree

I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone. - Bjarne Stroustrup (1950-) computer science professor, designer of C++ programming language q._A-Word-A-Day_
[tftd believes this to be more true {today 2009Jun26} than when originally stated.]

shocking

Cincinnati at the top of this list is beyond my comprehension

and Atl, LA and Pgh are not on the list!

Medicinal words to describe people

My three children went to a Waldorf school. Waldorf uses the temperaments as one of its many child-management tools. For instance, children of like temperament are often seated together, so that they can "see themselves" and develop accordingly. It works better to have a choleric kid bumping heads with another choleric kid instead of with a weepy melancholic. The phlegs bore one another into action. The melans get fed up with one another's whining. The
sanguines have to learn to tamp down the chatter to get anything done.

My children are: Phlegmatic, Melancholic, and Sanguine-Choleric, so I got to experience four temperaments in three kids. Deciding what to do on a family outing was an interesting experience, I can tell you. - Laura Kennedy q.awad

true story - How would you pronounce this child's name?

"Le-a"

Leah?? NO

Lee - A?? NOPE

Lay - a?? NO NO NO

Lei?? Guess Again

This child attends a school in Detroit MI.

Her mother is irate because everyone is getting her name wrong. It's pronounced "Ledasha", When the Mother was asked about the pronunciation of the name, she said, "the dash don't be silent." So, if you see something come across your desk like this please remember to pronounce the dash. If they axe you why, tell them the dash don't be silent. -
mhennigan@HAWAII.RR.COM uga2009Jun19

dear grandchildren

can you find your mother/aunt in this picture?

The look on the face of which child is your favorite? - mine is first row second from the left.

surprise surprise

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSL0910395120080109

Top 10 (More) Ways to Provoke a Geek Argument

http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2009/06/ten-more-ways-to-provoke-a-geek-argument/

while we're on the topic of bizarre

The Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form

Math and the City

moderately bizarre as only math can do it

gaffes and miscues

http://www.newsmax.com/gaffes/index.html?s=al&promo_code=7ED8-1

100 days

http://www.newsmax.com/100days/jan_20.html

Letterman's Women-Bashing Part of Larger Issue

http://www.newsmax.com/andrea_tantaros/letterman_palin/2009/06/16/225682.html

great physics joke

in lower left corner

corrected link

or maybe just a great pun

old news made new

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090612/ap_on_re_us/us_radioactive_wasps

This happened at Oak Ridge while I was there. Only the nest was built in a radiation monitor ionization chamber. Set it off. They had a nice picture in the next annual report.

They had to drain and clean a pond used to hold water before release into the Clinch River. I think it was Black Oak Creek.

be very careful about placing anything on the Internet

http://news.aol.com/article/christmas-card-photo-in-czech-ad/522807

creative new college sport

Carolyn is one of those unique individuals that allows you to be creative. She lets you take the bull by the horns and run. - Michael Bologna, director of the culinary program at the retirement party for Carolyn Hall, dean of the Mountain View campus of Chattahoochee Technical College 2009May28 q.Talia Mollett North Cobb Neighbor 2009Jun4