Goat rope, goat roping, and goat rodeo describe a messy, disorganized situation. Grant wrote about these terms in his book The Official Dictionary of Unofficial English. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “As Disorganized as a...
Quiz Guy John Chaneski has a magical puzzle, the answers to which contain the word magic. For example, a motel sign in the ’70s might have included the enticement Magic Fingers, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a practitioner of literature featuring...
mugger n.— «For the boys, between nine and 12 years old, the skill of throwing a lasso to corral a runaway calf has already been developed. The competitors also proved adept at tying three of the animal’s legs together while the calf was...