SAY WHAT?

JULIANNE HOUGH--PERFECT IN EVERY WAY

It is 6:13 a.m. and clear outside at 65.0 degrees F. Gonna be hot today--90's. Patrick is still in bed.

OK, so Dogs, DWTS ended with Apolo and Juliane winning, Joey and Kym runners-up. That's all right with me.

Skipped the dancing last night to watch Tom Selleck's latest venture into his Sheriff Jesse Stone movie series. He was great, as per usual, but the writers made that same old error they've been making since when, 1941? When Dash Hammett wrote The Maltese Falcon, he introuduced a new lexicon to the American public, an underworld colorful language that he learned when he worked as a detective. One of the words was "Gunsel" which was used in the movie too. Other writers have picked it up and used it over and over since then, thinking it meant "Gunman". Sam Spade did indeed call a gunman a "gunsel"--but he was insulting him--the word means homosexual--and Hammett hinself confirmed this--but writers of detective fiction continue to make the mistake even to this day...

It's a language pet peeve of ours, dwarfed only by use of the phrase "Monitor and Merrimac" used to this day, even by people who know better, and even, incredibly, by authors who ADMIT it is wrong right after having used it!!! The famous naval battle off Hampton Roads during the Civil War, which rendered all of the Navies of the world obsolete in one terrible day, was fought between the USS Monitor and the CSS Virgina. But of course "Monitor and Virginia" is not alliterative, so the newspapers didn't like it. (the Merrimac was a U.S. frigate, burned to the waterline by the federals when they abandoned Norfolk. The Confederates used her hull to build the Virginia.)

Don't get me started on "irregardless".

From the Patriot Post:

“This administration has a case of the slows on border enforcement. If we have border enforcement, we will be able at that point to start to regulate the internal problem that we’ve got. Because as long as you’ve got a revolving door and you have no border—and this 2,000-mile porous border, incidentally, is our biggest homeland security problem; it’s not just an immigration problem, it’s a homeland security problem—we need to build the border fence. We need to have a Border Patrol which is big enough to get the job done, and we need to be able to ask people when they want to come into America, knock on the front door, because the back door is going to be closed.” —Rep. Duncan Hunter

Snippets of wisdom from the Outpost one year ago today:

Tuesday, May 23, 2006

THE NIGHT THEY DROVE 'OL DIXIE DOWN

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If I am one of the 26 million veterans whose identities have been stolen, won't they be surprised when they try to get a loan?

posted by Trader Rick @ 5:45 AM

THOMPSON-HUNTER '08!!

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