Quiz Guy John Chaneski is back with another Common Bonds game, in which the object is to figure out what one word links a trio of ideas. For example, what one word unites the following three things? A report card, USDA inspected beef, and an incline...
Mike from Green Bay, Wisconsin, says his dad claims to have coined the term radke for a half-finished beer, and that the term is widespread. Is it? More widespread and well-documented terms for such unfinished drinks are wounded soldier and grenade...
What’s your choice for the 2011 word of the year? Grant shares some of his picks. Speaking of picks, why do football commentators seem to love the term pick-six? Also, great quotations from writers, the meaning of such Briticisms as cheeky and...
What’s the difference between hand grenades and pomegranates? Not much when you think about their shape and the fact that they’re both packed tightly with small things, which is why both share a linguistic root with the word granular...
mouse hole v.— «“One man makes for the stairway, covered by bullets of the others shooting ahead of him. At the same time two or three men can enter the house and begin to ‘mouse hole’ into the next forom from the secured ground floor...
grenade n.— «The problem was the third leg of this female tripod: the grenade. Now, this is a term my roommates and I use to describe the friend of the hot girls who was not blessed with the same physique as her head-turning counterparts...
