Corgis got them wiggle butts, Torn Slatterns and Nugget Ranchers


Today in Pamplona was the running of the bulls. And in Germany at the G20, there was the running of the BS.


At the G-20 meeting in Hamburg, Donald Trump met with Vladimir Putin for 2 1/2 hours. Of course, the last thirty minutes were Putin and Trump putting two man-bun Ken dolls in compromising positions and giggling. 


A Brazilian men’s soccer club kicked four members off when a player was videoed providing shower hand-service to two players. “This is so shocking," said not one US male sports fan.




A Brazilian men’s soccer club kicked four members off when a player was videoed providing shower hand-service to two players. So now the Rosie Palms Soccer Club is short-handed.

So now the Knuckle Shuffle Soccer Club is short-handed. 

 So now the Hand-Jive Soccer team is short-handed. 


Twitter is going crazy over Christian company, Hobby Lobby, possibly buying Iraqi artifacts from ISIS. This explains Hobby Lobby’s new scented candle:  Desert Jihad. 

A Brazilian men’s soccer club kicked four members off when a player was videoed providing shower hand-service to two players. The good news is the servicing player was signed by the Philadelphia Phillies for his ball-handling. 



 A Brazilian men’s soccer club kicked four members off when a player was videoed providing shower hand-service to two players. This is different than the NFL where the owners jerk-off the fans.


Since you asked:

Today’s Strunk and White “The Elements of Style,” lesson from “Misused Words and Expressions.”

Farther and further. The two words are commonly interchanged, but there is a distinction worth observing: farther serves best as a distance word, further as a time or quantity word. You chase a ball farther than the other fellow; you pursue a subject further.


The way I remember it is farther can be measured, further is philosophical. 

As anyone who has read more than three sentences of my blog can ascertain, I have neither the knowledge nor the right to be pedantic. That does not mean I do not have my pet peeves.

One of my pet peeves is when people use big words incorrectly. Fortuitous is a luminescent example. It has nothing to do with luck or good fortune. It means by chance. Serial killers can pick their victims fortuitously. Sports announcers do this constantly. 

(This mistake is blatantly made in "Tombstone" by Dana Delaney's character, Josephine Marcus, as she describes her and Wyatt's chance meeting on a ride) 

Serendipitous means lucky or fortunate. And it is an even bigger word. So go nuts. 

It breaks my heart that I cannot be boating with The Hartnettsnakes and the Serranosnakes in Dana Point. No doubt I am there in snake spirit. Will be there on the 14th.