Post Office

I was at the post office the other day and spied a box on a counter.  I wish I could've snapped a picture of it, but it would have been too conspicuous to the box owner.

On the side of the box the sender had written:

Merry Christmas
Happy New Years

***FRAGILE***

***BRAKABLE***

***FRAGILE***

[sigh]

OMG! Make it Stop!

If I hear one more damned reporter use any form of the word impact again, I’m gonna slash my wrists. 

Tonight Jim Cantore (Annoying, hands-always-on-his-hips, NBC weather dweeb) referred to the nor’easter on its way to NY & NJ as impactful.  He then went on to say it would have impacts here and impacts there. 

Shit…Make it stop.

 

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The other day I was going through some of my mother's boxes of stuff, and stumbled upon a number of clippings she saved while teaching in Beijing, China.  In 1983 and 1988 she was Chief of Party for a team of professors from UCLA who went to Beijing to teach. 

These little treasures are  a testament to her love of language.  English was her first language.  She had a masters degree in ESL and a masters degree in Spanish.  She also had a working knowledge of Portuguese, French and Chinese. 

I'll post these little gems (not just from China) from time to time and tag them as "Mom's Collection."

Little Miss Muffet Sat on a Futtet

Last night I watched "Spiders: The Dark Side" on National Geographic Wild.  During a segment about a woman who had been bitten by a black widow spider he said:

"She's become viligant in other ways as well."

I wasn't sure if I heard it right, so I rewound the DVR.  Yep.  He said it.  Nice.

Wholly Cow!

I snapped this picture of a sign on the ol' teevee news a few months ago in the wake of the sexual abuse story unfolding  at Miramonte Elementary School in California.  Amazing.



I can see why they want (and need!) their teachers back!



Rick, Rick, Rick

"Well I don’t know about you, but I believe in act of Gods." - Rick Santorum responding to a fellow candidate, April, 2012

University of the Wrong Word

For the last few weeks I’ve been tortured by a television commercial for the University of the Incarnate Word (UIW), a private Catholic university in San Antonio. In the commercial, a graduate praises the university.

Toward the end of her pitch she says, “These are the types of things that have made myself and my business a success.”

Really? Wow.

Here’s a link to UIW’s other mention in this blog.

Express Yourself

McDonald's is pimping their McCafe espresso coffees furiously on television commercials lately.  The guy doing the voice-over on the commercial unmistakably says "expresso."

Really?

Previous Store - Next Store

I saw an old high school buddy's post on Facebook this morning that used the words "next store" instead of "next door."

An egg corn first for me.  Amazing.

Phonetics

Saw this a couple of weeks ago and chuckled.