Category Archives: sayings
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Pop-Tarts, Frogs, and the Alamo
Leave a commentNovember 6, 2021 by libroshombre
“Woman Sues Kellogg Over Lack of Strawberries in Strawberry Pop-Tarts,” a recent Washington Post article, got me considering how …
Continue readingCategory: animals, battles, books, education, grammar, libraries, public libraries, sayings | Tags: Alamo, ellipsis, frogs, Juan Seguin
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Publishers, Malarkey, and Project Gutenberg
Leave a commentMarch 24, 2017 by libroshombre
“Malarky!” was one of my father’s favorite epithets for things he deemed phony or exaggerated. I heard it all …
Continue readingCategory: publishing, sayings, Uncategorized, word origins | Tags: malarkey, project gutenberg, TAD, Thomas Aloysius Dorgan