Stall etiquette not just for men
In light of the “men’s room etiquette” schooling we all received last week courtesy of Sen. Larry Craig, I thought a brief round-up of rules from the ladies’ perspective might be in order. Here are some unwritten guidelines you might not be aware of:
1. Courtesy flush - yes, gals use it too… it’s only proper [...]
More annoying Linguistic habits we should break
Another of my “linguistic habits” posts totalled some 32,346 words all on one topic (the movie “Dick”). So, I decided to shorten things up a bit. Here are a few more verbal short-cuts we should eliminate immediately from our daily discourse:
1. Use of the cliche, “as a rule of thumb.” This phrase originally referred to the “rule” (actually a British [...]
*News in weird places
Okay, at work I sometimes have to buy printing for brochures, newsletters, logo doohickies, and stuff like that. What that ultimately means is that every commercial printer in Des Moines has me on their mailing list to receive
their “house organ” (ha!)… er, customer newsletter. So today instead of throwing one of these wastes of resources [...]
*And now the news…
I finally made good use of a mass-forwarded email someone sent me. It was full of interesting, but not inherently humorous facts, which I’ve turned into the following news update.
Dateline Sea World: Scientists have discovered that turtles can breathe through their butts. Sociologists point out that they’ve seen this phenomenon before, because while politicians can [...]
*A study to study studies
A technology report on CNN.com (“The liberal media empire at your fingertips”) says a new study has found that people who live by the cell phone (or pager, or other mobile personal communication equipment) find less life satisfaction because work and family issues tend to blur together. Dads taking work-related calls at home, moms taking [...]
*Workplace health risk addressed
In an attempt to create widespread public panic, generate sympathy, and elicit federal grant money for long-term laboratory animal studies, the Department of Minor Afflictions has released information about a deadly new condition found to strike computer users. Known as “e-thrombosis,” due in large part to the annoying linguistic habit of adding an “e-” to [...]
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