Showing posts with label excretion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label excretion. Show all posts

Saturday, May 14, 2011

A WHAT? Ooo, Ick!

Thanksgiving Haley holds a backyard touch-football game cum barbecue.

A cum barbecue? WTF?

I know what he's trying to say, of course, but when you use that particular word (it's Latin, by the way), you should italicize it, just as you would any other Latin phrase embedded in an English-language sentence:

Thanksgiving Haley holds a backyard touch-football game-cum-barbecue.

And, as much as I love barbecue, I don't think I'd be willing to try cum barbecue. Don't think you could barbecue it, anyway. Maybe mix it with cornmeal and fry it up as a hushpuppy. Not that I'd be willing to try even that.

Monday, July 27, 2009

Did You Know...

...that the German word for a man who sits down to urinate is sitzpinkler? And that they don't use it in a complimentary way? Neither did I.

h/t Amy Alkon at the Advice Goddess Blog.

I think I just found the perfect name for an EverQuest character...

*laughs uproariously*