I am fairly sure this expression is more about luring and killing flies than about capturing them. And, unless one is a geneticist double-checking old Drosophila (fruit-fly) studies, I’m not sure why anyone wants flies anyway. But aside from the obvious meaning, I’m pondering a second meaning for this expression. It doesn’t say you don’t […] Read More »
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Ain’t language wonderful?
When we were cute little smart-aleck boys barely old enough for school, we used to enjoy saying “I ain’t gonna say ain’t no more, cuz ain’t ain’t a word in the dictionary. Ain’t that great?” The word ain’t may or may not actually be in the dictionary, but I do know what it means. It’s […] Read More »
I just can’t do it.
I used to be thinner. In fact, there was a time when I was downright skinny. I didn’t have a washboard stomach, but I had speed bump ribs. And I desperately wanted to be good at sports. There was an irrational hope in me, that probably still hasn’t completely gone away, that somehow, if I […] Read More »
I didn’t do it.
I like comics and written cartoons. I like funny papers and serials and editorial cartoons. A lot of what I like are multi-panel strips, some with long-running stories. But I also like one-panel stand-alone cartoons. One of my all time favorites was published right after a city in New York state received meters of snow, […] Read More »
I had a kink in my neck.
When I was a little boy, I fell down a lot. I had a healthy sense of adventure and exploration, but not much sense of balance and almost no muscular coordination. My first stitches came when I fell off the monkey bars at the playground, split open my chin, nearly bit my tongue off, and […] Read More »