Ba-dum Ching!

President Barack Obama visits a Glasgow hospital ... He enters a ward whose patients have no obvious sign of injury or illness. He greets one. The patient replies, "Fair fa your honest sonsie face, Great chieftain o the puddin race, Aboon them a ye take yer place, Painch, tripe or thairm, As la...

Funny that this word should pop up; I just read it last night (see below). The translation may be from Greek, but I think it's a Latin word. From the Perseus Project : lictor (pronounced līctor, Gell. 12, 3, 4), ōris, m. 1. ligo; cf. Gell. 12, 3, 1 sqq., I. a lictor, i. e. an attendant granted to a ...

The third rock.

Not yet being retired (as opposed to being continuously tired), some things take up the time alloted for other things.

Well, I had the se part from sui, I just didn't add the cum (with) to it.

Bless me, Father, for I've not thinned; it's been 40 years since high school Latin II.

Alas, I've said it before and I'll say it again: SPAM and malware will be with us until we have public hangings of spammers and malware providers on the Mall in Washington, DC, with Death Squads targetting those beyond the reach of our legal system.

"Sic semper cacoconscriptoribus."

It was Onan's refusal to follow instructions to impregnate Tamar, the wife of his deceased brother Er, that caused his early departure from this earthly life. Onan should have learned from Er's fate: it was not wise to disobey The Lord in the Old Testament.

Gen 38:6-10

I must admit this is a new one to me, too, so I can only surmise. I would guess that since the fetlock protrudes from a horse's leg, grabbing life by the fetlock would be to lock onto it in a way that it cannot escape. ... Or maybe, as a former co-worker once said long ago, "I decided to take ...

From a definitive source, Leo Rosten's The New Joys of Yiddish , revised by Lawrence Bush (Copyright (C) 2001 by The Rosten Family LLC): Shlock Shlak Schlock, Schlack Rhymes with "clock." Schlock is both an adjective and a noun. From German: Schlacke , "slag" or "Dross."...

...The real root of the word: ... A reminder of the original function of postage stamps, now often forgotten: the cost of letter-carrying formerly was paid by the recipient ; stamps indicated it had been pre-paid by the sender, thus the letters were "carriage-free. WHOA! Can you imagine having...

Danke, Herr Slava! Speaking of portmanteau words, I ran across this VERY old made-up word at the Perseus Project: Argentiextĕrĕbrŏnĭdes , ae, m., I. a word formed by Plautus in jest, as the name of one who is skilled in extorting money [argentum-exterebro], a sponger, Plaut. Pers. 4, 6, 21 (cf. id. ...

I did short piece on some of the new words and and phrases for the CNN.com Opinions section. Click here for 2010 a year for playing games with words . Doc, I have to disagree with you on the Tea Party, although not as vociferously as some on the CNN site. Today's Tea Party members are angry because...

... I surely hope LOL goes the way of all flesh and soon. It is positively maddening to see it used in so many contexts where people cannot think of something else to say intelligently. No, LOL and its more intensive cousins (ROFL, ROFLMAO, and ROFLMMFAO) serve their purpose: to convey varying degr...

It's a thin line between afflatus and....

Aye, what a gas we could have with this one.

... kamakaze!

Job 8:2 is a good verse to toss to a righteous windbag.

So, could the title of that recent movie be rendered as "Ichabodian Illigitimates?"