Floodweiser
n.— «Floodweiser: Drinking water in white cans donated by Anheuser-Busch.» —“Watch the River Flow” by Lucy Howard, Sarah Van Boven in Grand Forks, N.D. Newsweek June 23, 1997. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
What if, instead of being an inanimate object, a dictionary were alive? That’s the idea behind a lavishly illustrated new children’s book called The Dictionary Story (Bookshop|Amazon) by Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston. This is part of a...
Lucy in Louisa, Virginia, recalls that if her mother was exasperated when the kids were misbehaving, she’d announce I’m going to put you both in a wet paper bag and see who falls out first! This is part of a complete episode.
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