[Today’s run: 6 miles]<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We’ve had a nice day today. It’s the 4th of July so I have the day off. We ran. Then we went over to the Penenger House in Starkville and had a nice family get-together with a Mexican lunch, apple pie and homemade ice cream. It was very nice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On our radio station we’ve just finished up playing “The American Language” by H.L. Mencken. Mencken was a classic curmudgeon, he apparently disliked everybody. But he wrote a book about American English usage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I heard the last few chapters via stream from our station while I was driving Wednesday morning to Birmingham to fill out some paperwork to be a part-time employee of a place called TEKSystems. That will let my soon-to-be-former co-workers call me up and get help, and me get paid. My last day is tomorrow, July 5th. My exit interview is at 11:00 AM. If they need me after that day they can pay me by the hour. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
So anyway, Mencken, the last part was about the variety of American slang and how words go from being slang or rude to being normal usage. Like the word “sucks” was once a rude term but now is more like plain usage. And some words or phrases can go from being acceptable to being rude\/slang.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And he mentioned the variety of American aphorisms, catchy sayings, and he gave one I had never heard before but I found it humorous: “Don’t monkey with the buzz saw.” A google lookup of that phrase produced references to a movie from 1914, and other items up to about WW2. I guess it fell out of usage before I came along.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I think the term buzzsaw seems to have gone out of fashion in general, kind of like blowtorch.
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