"Victory" vs. "Win"?

Teams and individuals don't lose anymore. They just fall.

 

I use 'em interchangeably, like switching up between "Podunk HS" and "Podunkers" to not get repetitive within a story.

 

Told this story once before ...

I got a hospital story on the desk one night in which the reporter called it a hospital in the lead and then called it a "facility" every single fucking time through the rest of the story, 26 or 27 times, and yes I counted them all.

I couldn't believe it. Just sat there stunned as I watched that shit pile up.
And then I changed them all back to "hospital." Or most of them, at least.

"Facility" is such a nothing word. Almost anything and everything is a facility for something.

 

As bad is "event" for game or tournament or competition. A birthday party is an event. Almost anything can be an event. Specificity, please.

 

Goat, not goad.

 

The New York Herald-Tribune was still using to-day in the 1960s. Maybe one reason why there is no longer a New York Herald-Tribune.

 

Turns of phrase I’ve fucked up over the years:
Stuck in my craw (not crawl. I always thought it was crawl space)
Toe the line (not tow. I thought the line meant you pulled the line with you not a foot race term)
And now get my goat. Here I was mistakenly thinking it was referring to goading me into something. Oh well.

 

Goad was correct, once upon a time. Like so many other things in the “English” we speak, it has been Americanized.

 

Lookin' for a lover who won't blow my brother.

That one always got me.

(But seriously, is it "you got another thing coming" or "you got another think coming"?)

 

I mean, that is always a must have when it comes to lovers

 

Toe the line refers to old time boxing. You had to “toe the line” before every round, or you lost.

 

It is crawl space, ‘cause you have to crawl around under the house to thaw the frozen water pipes.