Day: September 19, 2022

Because you just can’t shiver too many timbers, Jim-Lad.

I had no idea that “hornswoggle” was a pirate term. That seems like a dubious attribution to me. The only time I’ve ever heard it is in old westerns. Collins online says it is peculiar to American English, and Google’s N-Gram viewer shows no instances of the word having appeared in print before 1907.

Nibbles, we hardly knew thee.

Upon hearing the news, Ted Cruz suggested that we should also cancel Black History Month out of respect for the Queen. He seemed undeterred when informed that it would not be until February.