My high school drama teacher was always concerned about swear words in the plays he produced and directed at the school, so he would come up with fake...

The Red Sox' Bill Lee, aka "The Spaceman," threw it in 1975. It worked the first 3 or 4 times in the World Series, and then one of Cincinnati's power...

One of my favorite obscure folksingers from the '60s and early 70s, Patrick Sky, wrote a parody of "Okie from Muskogee," and when he performed it, tol...

Bob Bridges said: Well... I'm all for laziness when it's useful, and fewer syllables is always more useful than more, as far as that goes. That ...

Interesting, because I've always referred to the cloud formations in which these beams of light occur as "bible clouds," because they look like those ...

So, why is Northern California actually in central California? San Francisco, commonly considered Northern California, is about 400+ miles from the N...

Just the contrafacts: How about "homotune?" Another obvious example: "Mary Had a Little Lamb: and "London Bridge is Falling Down."

As for your discussion of dried grapes and dried plums, thanks for giving us the raisin d'etre.

This is reminiscent of the story about GE's initial venture into China, where they had someone translate their company slogan: "GE. We bring good thi...

On the subject of old insults, how about this one from W.S. Gilbert? He once declared that “[n]o one can have a higher opinion of him than I have-a...