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  1. Greek plural

    The woman at the supermarket checkout counter this morning had a nametag that said “Fatoumata”, \and my brain just wouldn't stop yelling at me that this was obviously the plural of “Fatouma”.

  2. Erbaut

    Wow, this Erbaut guy sure did design a lot of buildings.

  3. Improved English-language month names

    Anuary Bebruary Carch Dapril Eay Fune Guly Haugust Ieptember Joctober Kovember Lecember

  4. I fix a thirty-year-old mistake

    A while back I wrote about the time I didn't eat the gizzards: At some point I passed by a little restaurant in the middle of nowhere away from everything else, and since it was dinner time, I went in.

  5. Minced oaths?

    Sounds like something a cartoon farmer would yell if they saw their cows getting out.

  6. On the monobosom

    According to the New York MetrOpOlitan Museum of Art: The pigeon-breasted silhouette favored in the first decade of the twentieth century was called the monobosom.

  7. Partly about pie

    Last night I was making a frittata after midnight, and midnight brain suggested to me that I should make a pie of partidges and parsnips, seasoned with parsley.

  8. More about ranking chess-piece-shaped butt plugs

    I want to ask Claude's advice about this, just to see what it will say.

  9. Ranking chess pieces…

    …in order of suitability as designs for novelty butt plugs.

  10. Your Momma

    Your momma's a dispersion of Ugly colloidally suspended in a continuous lipid phase.

  11. John Barth Jovi

  12. Z

    Q: Why is ‘Z’ the least common letter in English?

  13. Philip Glass

    It's not fair that there are people who want big bags under their eyes who can't have them because Philip Glass is monopolizing the entire supply.

  14. Annoying stuff I've said

    I've annoyed a lot of people in my life, but here's something I said once that I think really stands out.

  15. Mormons

    If the Mormons don't want me to call them “Mormons” then they should come up with a name for themselves that doesn't require me to acknowledge that they are “saints”.

  16. Bulk liquid food transport

    Me and the family have been on the road recently, and yesterday we saw a food-grade tanker truck in the next lane.

  17. Sister cities?

    Are Salisbury and Salzburg sister cities?

  18. “In a signal handler, can I…” “No.”

  19. The silliest town name in the United States

    In Blue Highways, author William Least Heat-Moon states that that the town with the silliest name in the U.S. is Intercourse, Pennsylvania.

  20. Articol fără titlu

    This article about finding drowned bodies with quicksilver-filled bread says: A loaf of bread was then filled with “over two ounces of quicksilver,” then thrown into the water I was annoyed that the original source said this, because I found it unclear.

  21. Don't get all up in my grill

    Today I'm feeling happy about the phrase "all up in my grill".

  22. Jehovah's Witnesses schism

    What if there were a Jehovah's Witness splindere sect that took the Tolkien legendarium as literally true?

  23. More pizza heresy

    People like to have fainting fits to show off how horrified they are about pineapple pizza, or Hawai‘ian pizza (pineapple plus ham) but I think it's pretty good and those people need to get a grip or find a less silly hobby.

  24. Followup to a Stack Exchange comment from 2014

    Reminder: Anyone can edit Wikipedia and make it better...

  25. Actors with odd names

    What famous actors have the oddest names?