Life in a Northern Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C. B.M.A.T.C., and Etruscan typewriter erasers. Blogged by David Gorsline.
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A Christmas message from Alec Baldwin's character in Glengarry Glen Ross. And he doesn't mess around with the nondenominational "Happy Holidays" thing, so the "War on Christmas" crowd should be happy. Well, maybe not. posted: 11:42:01 AM |
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Jessy Randall turns up a useful shorthand in her "Mongo No Like Legging: Family Expressions Deserving Wider Recognition," published in a recent number of Verbatim (to be archived online soon, we hope). Her correspondent writes:
Many years ago, when I was about eight, my mom and step-dad took me to a play with some of their friends.
At the play, one of them asked me if this was my first time at the theater.
I said, "Oh, no, this is my third culture this year."
To this day, my family refers to going to plays of museums or stuff like that as getting a culture, as in "I went to New York and got three cultures." You can probably tell from this that we are a family who does not get many cultures. Randall also considers padiddle (too widely used to be considered a family expression), and in so doing explains the punch line of a National Lampoon story that I read in college and never really understood. posted: 8:50:35 AM |
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