I recently came across a figure of speech that makes no sense to me: "I wouldn't spit on him if he were on fire." Apparently this means that you hate someone so much, you wouldn't spit on them if they were on fire. I don't see how this makes sense; NOT spitting on that person would be the polite thing to do, no? After all, spitting on them will not ( Read more... )

My sister is a fan of the show "wizards of waverly place" and I recently noticed that one of the actors often pronounces "the"with a short e rather than a long e  in sentences where I'm used to a long e being used. I'm in central Ontario Canada as an aside. example: "It's the only way" with "the" sounding more like thee. The actor pronounces it ( Read more... )

In ontario Canada at least we have several things that we speak of by a namebrand of a company. ie tissues = Kleenex and bandages = bandaids.

As well there are tv spots for a film called zombieland (I have a purpose i swear).  Part of the ad campaign is that the charatcers have rules for how to survive in a zombie filled wasteland. Anyways in one ( Read more... )

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