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Monthly Archives: February 2007

What does this mean?

Readers are invited to explain selected sentences from current news stories.  You can be creative if you want, but I wouldn’t mind a straightforward explanation.  Also feel free to suggest other puzzlers.  (No politics, please: the focus is language.)
From WRCB-TV in Chattanooga:
 …”We have the three climbers..all are mobile..no one is ambulatory.”
 Four guesses from Justkristin:
“We have [...]

Why isn’t this kitsch?

If you go to the Talaria Museum Store at  http://www.talariaenterprises.com/product_lists/parastone/bosch-garden-earthly-deli.html, you’ll discover that it’s actually (probably) within your means to own a Hieronymus Bosch Garden of Earthly Delights action figure, such as
 
 This is the one I picked for myself, and it makes me inordinately happy, although lately I’ve been keeping in the trunk of my [...]