"Victory" vs. "Win"?

[Baron Scicluna]

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 forking 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 shirt 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.

For years, until Vince McMahon resigned, the WWE announcers were told that they could never say they word "hospital." If a wrestler, in storyline, was beaten up and taken out i a stretcher, the announcers would always say that they were taken to a "local medical facility." They'd make it sound like a guy could be run over by a car multiple times and get treated at a proctologist's office. It was annoying as heck.

 

[SixToe]

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

I always laugh when I see "road to hope" because I wonder what they're growing in the road.

Of course, they could have a prostitute in a sloop with them and be accurate in saying they're rowing a ho'

 

[ChrisLong]

Tame the savage breast
Tame the savage beast

 

[Slacker]

Tame the savage breast
Tame the savage beast

Tay tha saaa beeeeeeeee ... beeeeeeeeee ... beeeeeeeeee .. beeeeeeeeesh, movfuvvvrrrsssss!!!!! ... DADDY, help!!! "

 

[justgladtobehere]

What else would it be than 'crawl space'?

 

[Twirling Time]

I picked up "hone in on" something from Midwesterners.

 

[hondo]

I'd be happy if everyone would quit writing, "Tom Brady completed passes to eight different receivers."

Don't need the word "different." It's understood those eight receivers were not clones of the same guy.

 

[BTExpress]

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

Not the crawl space, the craw space!