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I was at the Braves game today and as I was walking back to my car there were guys selling beverages out of coolers along the sidewalks to the parking lots. Each of them was tempting passers-by with a product they claimed to be ice cold. Now, many liquids have freezing points well below that [...]

pleonasm: the use of more words than are necessary to express an idea. I’ve developed a pet peeve recently. It involves mostly sports commentators, but plenty of other people, including business managers, who are keen on adopting phrases from sports commentators. It is the use of the phrase “question mark” to denote an unknown. Such [...]

There’s a weatherman on AM 750 in Atlanta who has what he calls the Mellish Meter, its an arbitrary scale of how good the weather is going to be on a given day. The problem is, what he thinks is great weather is not necessarily what I think is great weather. Yesterday was a day [...]