Claudia in Gardnerville, Nevada, grew up hearing her mother use beat the band for anything happening with great force or flair, as in it’s snowing to beat the band or she was running to beat the band. The expression appears in the late 1800s in uses...
Quiz Guy Greg Pliska has a royal quiz in honor of the wedding of Kate Middleton and Prince William. He celebrates the wedding of the King and Queen with clues to answers that contain the letters “K” and “Q” next to each other...
A caller asks about how lakes get named, and we talk about a lake with a 45-letter Indian name that may or may not translate as, “You fish on your side, I fish on my side and nobody fishes in the middle.” It’s Lake...
