The mother of eight-year-old twins wonders why one of her girls habitually adds “dun-dun-DUN!” to sentences in everyday conversation. The hosts suspect it’s related to the audio element known as a “sting” in television and movie parlance, like this...
cleanout n.— «Salvation comes in the form of large cleansing cool winds that sweep in from the northwest. But as luck would have it, Rochester is the last to benefit from Mother Nature’s air freshener. After pushing through Detroit Lakes, St. Cloud...
mouser n.— «Over the weekend, 32-year-old Michael Krube was arrested for trespassing in the St. Paul city sewer system. He’s known as a “mouser,” a slang term for a group of risk-takers who explore caves, tunnels and sewer systems.» —“St. Paul...
Twin Peaks approach n.— «It was influenced by what is known in regulatory circles as the Twin Peaks approach, used in Australia and the Netherlands. The idea is to create two financial regulators that are given separate responsibilities not based...
green-score v. phr.— «Last Saturday, I killed a 10-point here at my club in Pearl River County, and for around here it’s a real trophy.…I had it green-scored and it was about 130 inches and the taxidermist told me to enter it in something called...
embaby n.— «I went for another beta today and I’m waiting for the results. I also had an u/s and I could see one little embryo!! It was amazing to see. My RE said there could be another one or two that pops up since we’re still so early. I would...
