It's not often you can correct the Wall Street Journal
From today's "What's News" column teaser-page (on-line; item didn't appear in today's Texas print edition):
The U.S. scrambled fighters over several cities after a small plane hit a 50-story residential building in New York, but it proved to be an accident. Two on board died, one of them Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle, who is a pilot.
Ahem. "...who was a pilot." Or "...a former pilot, now taking a nap of indeterminate length."
[wik] Alternate possibility: "...a former pilot, who has now assumed ambient temperature."
[alsø wik] No, I have no idea why I'm in such a disrespectful mood today, but thanks for asking.
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he's just resting.
he's just resting.
or pining for the fjords,
or pining for the fjords, maybe.
One thing I can tell you....
One thing I can tell you....
.... it's....
.... it's....
tasteless.
tasteless.
Well...
Well...
...I was kibbutzing with some
...I was kibbutzing with some old friends today...
...we golf a lot, and we've
...we golf a lot, and we've now found a replacement for the vicious pulled drive to the left...
...We used to call it a
...We used to call it a "Munson". But no longer.
As a roommate of mine from
As a roommate of mine from East St Louis was fond of saying, with attendant sorrowful shaking of head, "You white cats is crazy."
So, nobody's going to make me
So, nobody's going to make me explain that the other phrase for a vicious pulled drive to the left is otherwise known as a "dead yank"?
At least among polite people. And non-crazy white cats.