Friday! Kilt Night and Celtic Music
Aug 31st, 2007 by Merlin
It’s Friday and we’ve got men in kilts. And we’ve got Celtic musicians. And we’ve got a lot of fun to partake in. Lovely!
In the past 24 hours, the Vikings managed to win a game, all Hollywood starlets evaded arrest, and I heard only one person use the tired term “the perfect storm” in reference to a confluence of events. It’s time to celebrate.
So take this Labor Day weekend by the reins and enjoy it. You deserve it, friends. Come toast the days with us!
Today’s Readables
* Going to Beijing for the Olympics next year? Well, you’ll be disappointed not to find virgin chicken or burnt lion’s head on restaurant menus. The city is trying to clean up its English.
* Derbyshire’s hairy baby girl!!
* Australia makes a play for British emigrants–and they’re going in droves
* The Real Rosies are taking to the skies in WWII planes! Awesome. We owe a great deal to those women.
* Who would have thought that it would be Iowa here in the Midwest to open things?
* And somebody get me a MegaMillions ticket, will you!?
Chris, we may need a “tired phrase” department.
I’d nominate:
“At the end of the day”
Arrrrrgggghhhh - don’t people know that it was popularized and then beaten to death during the Clinton impeachment proceedings?
“On the ground”
Well, where else for pity’s sake?
“Politically correct”
Reagan’s invention to show his distain for the previous 30 years of progress in civil and human rights.
And any phrasing, inflection, or cadence picked up like a virus from the six snotty “Friends.”
Oh, yeah. There’s no such thing as a “real-a-tor.” It’s “realtor.”
When you are sick, do you go to the docator?
Paul Mc
Well done.
-cK