CLONE TIME -- Remember Chester A. Riley, as played by William Bendix in "The Life of Riley"? (If you do, you are well over 40.) He was fond of saying, "My head's made up. You can't confuse me with the facts." To the Samurai Rim Man, it sounded very like many politicians and activists today.
FROM THE LEFT -- Pug Mahoney saw a photo of Christine O'Donnell, the Delaware candidate for U.S. Senate, and said, "I didn't realize that the cloning of Sarah Palin had reached such an advanced state."
CREEPING DIGITISM --The use of "digital" to describe anything is spreading, and "it's time to put a stop to it," comes word from across the pond. "A digital coffee maker does not make coffee from some new variety of bean," says Mad Dog O'Shaughnessy. For automobiles, there is also a digital tire pump. I don't know what a digital tire is, but Brother Mad Dog wonders, "If I pumped my car tire to the required 32 psi with 8s, would it be four times faster than if I used 2s?"
BOOK REVIEW -- Check out a review of a new book on language and usage from across the pond. The view is in the Irish Times. Here's a link: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2010/0925/1224279626802.html
VALID VALUE -- When inflation is taken into account, shouldn't someone's "two cents worth" now be worth a nickel (or not), or even rise to a two-bit comment?
GOOD LINE -- "He was weaned on a pickle." From "The Windsor Knot," by Sharyn Mccrumb.
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