Mashtags are potato snacks, pressed into the shapes of social media characters. Because marketers need a way to make junk food appeal to teens. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Social Media Snacks” Did you see these reports...
Apparently, in English-speaking places outside North America, American football is sometimes jokingly called handegg or hand-egg, a jab at a sport named football even though the ball is carried and shaped more like an egg. The contrast is with the...
Brian from Edison, New Jersey, noticed that the Mid-Atlantic convenience-store chain Wawa uses a goose in its logo, and that French oie, “goose,” is pronounced much like wawa. The store’s name comes from Wawa, Pennsylvania, and wawa was already a...
Five guys walk into a diner. One orders a toad in the hole, another the gashouse eggs, the third gets eggs in a basket, the next orders a hole in one, and the last fellow gets spit in the ocean. What does each wind up with? The same thing! Although...
A grandmother in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, is curious about the advice don’t teach your grandmother to suck eggs. This idiom is used as a warning not to presume that you know more than your elders and may be connected with the old practice of...
An old book of similes contains such gems as it’s easy as peeling a hardboiled egg and it’s as hard to shave as an egg. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Old-Fashioned Similes” I’m plundering the old books again, Martha. What else...