Taylor in Casper, Wyoming, carefully prepared her three-year-old son to meet his great grandparents for the first time. He misunderstood the great, and calls them Grandma and Grandpa Grape. Naturally, so does the rest of the family. Grant observes...
A man who owns a parrot says that when people see his bird, they invariably ask the question “Polly wanna cracker?” He wonders about the origin of that psittacine phrase, meaning parrot-like. One of the earliest uses of the phrase so far found is...
thunderbucket n.— «Personally I like having a nice mag to read while riding the thunderbucket aka the john.» —“That Sound You Heard Was the American Car Magazine Business Downshifting: 0-60 Debuts” by Yellofury Jalopnik Aug. 20, 2007. (source:...
shut up and color v. phr.— «Field perceives that they are being deceived. possibly being used as guinea pigs, treated like idiots and told to due nothing more than shut up and color (or in this case take the vaccine).» —“Adverse Reactions To...
