Archive for November, 2008

Dictionary Saturday: “Gig”

Saturday, November 29th, 2008

gig
–noun:
1) A light, two-wheeled one-horse car­riage.
2) Some­thing that whirls.
3) What Andrew’s doing this after­noon at Java Joe’s in Augusta.

What does a pirate say?

Monday, November 24th, 2008

Seri­ously, I want to know. For years, I was under the impres­sion that the stereo­typ­i­cal pirate expres­sion (aside from “Death to RIAA!” or “Pass me the Vit­a­min C drops, ye scurvy dog!”) was “Arrr.”
Or, occa­sion­ally, “Yarrr.”
How­ever, the past few years have brought with them a new excla­ma­tion of piracy: “Arrrgh.”
“Arrgh,” to my ears, has typically […]

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