Let’s face it — English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, not ham in hamburger; neither apple or pine in pineapple. English muffins weren’t invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren’t sweet, are meat.
We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
You don’t have to be crazy to use the English language, but it sure as heck helps!
As a senior who had to use a walker for the last three months, those tennis balls would be far more useful donated to charities to be used as “feet” on walkers. I can’t speak for other people, but I was wearing out a set a week, at $12 a pair just walking the 200 yards to get the mail daily. (cement walkways are worse than sandpaper)
It only takes the smell of the skin of one eggplant to make me PUKE…..Hated being a Mess cook in the Navy for two months…They are banned from my house….
Pickled Pete 6 days ago
Topic ~ Eggplant
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ENGLISH IS A FUNNY LANGUAGE
Let’s face it — English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, not ham in hamburger; neither apple or pine in pineapple. English muffins weren’t invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren’t sweet, are meat.
We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
You don’t have to be crazy to use the English language, but it sure as heck helps!
The Duke 6 days ago
The only question I have for Andrew Stanton is, Why?
Zykoic 6 days ago
But did Dave grow it?
A Common 'tator 6 days ago
Just as well there’s only one Wimbledon in the world… RBION forgot to tell us which country it is in…
Old Tarf Premium Member 6 days ago
Didn’t know mice needed conserving. Oversized vegetables are easy to grow. Just leave them on the plant. They aren’t fit to eat.
kaycstamper 6 days ago
You could make a lot of eggplant parmesan with that!
kaycstamper 6 days ago
Here we don’t build houses for mice, we buy electronic zappers for them! Crazy!
fgerbil46 6 days ago
I like the Wimbledon item. :-)
Huckleberry Hiroshima 6 days ago
So we have too few mice?
John Wiley Premium Member 6 days ago
Wimbledon promoting pestilence, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
Tee hee 6 days ago
Eye sockets? That’s got to hurt!
Gameguy49 Premium Member 6 days ago
The dolphin info is good but the rest is as dumb as a 8.33 pound eggplant.
h.v.greenman 6 days ago
As a senior who had to use a walker for the last three months, those tennis balls would be far more useful donated to charities to be used as “feet” on walkers. I can’t speak for other people, but I was wearing out a set a week, at $12 a pair just walking the 200 yards to get the mail daily. (cement walkways are worse than sandpaper)
e.groves 5 days ago
The mouse thing is probably sponsored by pest exterminators.
oish 5 days ago
Tennis Balls? Gives new meaning to the term “Room Service”
poppacapsmokeblower 5 days ago
Why, Dave, why? The world won’t eat eight pounds of eggplant before it goes bad.
oakie817 5 days ago
i have a picture of me taken when i was 3 hours old – i was born with sideburns – they fell out but i grew them back when i was a teenager
Angry Indeed Premium Member 5 days ago
I have whiskers and if the air is charged with enough static electricity, they’ll stand on end, BION.
daisypekin01 5 days ago
tennis balls: coffins for “rain frogs”?
Stephen Gilberg 5 days ago
Not the same Andrew Stanton as at Pixar, I trust.
kaboobs 5 days ago
Ought to donate to people that have to use walkers. They make great pads.. stops scratching the floors.
Aimless Melissa 5 days ago
FGS, somebody, give that poor fool something safer and saner to do with his free time!! It’s a boredom emergency!
chain gang charlie 5 days ago
It only takes the smell of the skin of one eggplant to make me PUKE…..Hated being a Mess cook in the Navy for two months…They are banned from my house….
Barf……
Snuffles [Previously Helikitty] 5 days ago
That’s one heavy driver!
Cminuscomics&stories Premium Member 5 days ago
Mr. Stanton needs a mental health check.