Old-school news, just in time
by Kevin Burton I’ve done it before; I could do it again if I had to. So file this under “just in case.” The BBC recently published a list of ten best countries for expatriates – people who leave their home country to live abroad – based on a survey by Internations, the …
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by Kevin Burton Separate an Oreo cookie into its two elements and you’re going to find out, it’s all good stuff. So it is when you start peeling apart words. They’re all sweet to the taste for some of us, even if at times they are bittersweet. Merriam-Webster served up a particularly …
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by John Carlisle Detroit Free Press BELLAIRE, Mich. − He’d had enough of being at the animal shelter, so Scout the dog climbed over one tall fence and then another, crossed a busy highway in the darkness, entered the automatic doors of a nursing home down the road, walked unnoticed into the lobby, hopped onto …
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by Kevin Burton Before she went to bed Sunday night I told my co-manager/wife that we had lost our Muppets of Beepball League fantasy football opener, because we trailed by 46 points. The opponent was out of players but all our K&J Silvers team had left was one running back and our defense. …
by Kevin Burton It took exactly three verses for the Bible to start talking about light. “Let there be light,” God said. And there was light. Read backward to Genesis 1:2 and you see that “the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.” …
by Kevin Burton Yesterday we brought clarity to numerical words and phrases which are indefinite, in some cases to the point of mystification. And you have come back for more. Thanks! And here is a bonus number-word definition: If I say “thanks a bunch” or “Thanks a million” it’s all the same. …
by Kevin Burton I can still hear Rosa, one of my English as a Second Language students trying out a new word, “seldom.” I was a reasonably good teacher without having had any training. She was a very good student, having had better teachers in the earlier levels of English study. “Seldom.” …
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by Kevin Burton I just broke the all-time record for fastest to drop a player off a fantasy football roster. If you know fantasy, you know this is not a happy occasion. Footballs have not even begun to fly yet. That comes tomorrow when the defending Super Bowl champion Chiefs host Detroit. …
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by Kevin Burton On the Billy Joel portion of our rock and roll road trip you could have reasonably expected “New York State of Mind” or even “Allentown.” Instead we swing west to look at “Stop In Nevada.” This song fits very well into our road-trip theme. Today’s tale includes one of …
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by Kevin Burton The Scrabble words deployed against you that get you beat; those are the ones you remember the best. Something kind of similar happened with my Bible memory verses recently. I’ve written previously about my memory verses, typed on paper, taped onto index cards of various colors. I am up …
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