This week: whether cotton-pickin’ is racist, unintentionally funny headlines, whether enormity can simply mean “enormous,” how a person can be “such a pill,” and pandiculation. “It’s good stuff, Maynard...
Crazy crossword clues, Round 3: Cover of the Bible? (2 words). Source of relief? (7 letters). This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Two Crazy Crossword Clues” Martha, here are a couple more crossword clues from crosswordese...
medible n.—Gloss: Food containing marijuana. Note: marijuana + edible «Eating edibles (often referred to as Medibles) gives some suffers of chronic ailments more relief or a different kind of relief than simply smoking or vaporizing it...
gated adj.— «The new study suggests that itch, like pain, may be a “gated” system in which signals from other nerve cells can interfere with or moderate the sensation. Scratching the skin near, but not directly on, the spot that itches...
bank walkaway n.— «Banks are quietly declining to take possession of properties at the end of the foreclosure process, most often because the cost of the ordeal—from legal fees to maintenance—exceeds the diminishing value of the real...
unscramble the eggs v. phr.— «He also noted that U.S. Circuit Court Judges Janice Brown and David Tatel “agreed that this Court has the power to grant relief despite the merger having already taken place.” That could mean...