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chrise

Love your posts.

I bought a box of eggs once. A sticker said "Caution. This box may contain egg products."

I was rather pleased that it did.

I've just written PET HATE into a crossword, and it reminded me.
Radio3 news this morning, about new pictures on banknotes:
"They will be of animals and birds"

Two nations divided by a common language. I've just heard the American golf commentator call Englishman Paul Waring (pronounced, of course, "wearing") as "Paul Warring".

Not an American thing, just a screw-up by one announcer. There is a company called Waring here (and maybe there) that makes small kitchen appliances; pronounced "wearing" by one and all, most memorably by Warren Zevon at about 1:10:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4Uhs82k_CU

Thanks buddy. He has repeated "Warring" several times!

Why can't people read what they have written? This is from a BBC report on the Scotland-England Women's rugby match:
"What it has taken to get to this stage for the Scotland players cannot be understated,"
The writer means "overstated"!

He probably could care less about it.

Once again, the media have shown pictures of Trump, a civilian, saluting military personnel.

Just finished a quiz on Youtube. One of their questions:

Name a country whose capital is not the largest city.

USA

Australia

Canada

Their answer was Australia so, at least they had a correct answer.

Were you expected to pick one, swarbrules? They are, of course, all correct.