Responding to our conversation about the curses medieval scribes wrote in books to prevent their theft, a professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst emails a modern-day book curse from the instructional manual Beginning Glassblowing by...
A listener from California says her family’s way of remarking on rain is to mention the space between falling drops. So a 12-inch rain means there’s about a foot between one drop and the next. Tricky, huh? This is part of a complete episode...
Tennessee tickler n.— «I was getting in a work truck today at a gas station in the mojave desert california and was in a hurry. A guy that just pulled up and getting out of his car commented, “Now thats a Tennessee Tickler.” I...

