If you’re serious about writing a memoir, what topics should you include, and what can you leave out? And how honest can you really be about the other people in your life? Some of America’s leading memoirists wrote things they lived to...
What do you call the cardboard roll inside a roll of toilet paper? Many families have their own name for it, including der der and oh-ah, oh-ah. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Der Der, Oh-Ah” You’re...
Duh and no duh can both mean roughly “that’s obvious,” even though one has a negative stuck on the front. Russell from Dallas has also heard doy, der, and their no forms, all part of the same family of mock-obviousness replies. The evidence here is...
Does your family have a word for the cardboard tube left over from a roll of toilet paper? A caller says his family refers to them Oh-ah, Oh-ahs. Turns out many families have their own terms for them, including drit-drit, dawda dawda, hoo-hoo, to...