Problems in Richmond aren’t just found in Virginia–sometimes they’re found in other Richmonds. A Richmond County school in Georgia has finally figured out a solution to the problem of teachers having sex with students—they’ve started having sex with each other. Which they can, since they are consenting adults, after all.
On school grounds.
While class is in session.
Oh. Well. Hmmmm ….
See, problem solved! Or, you know, maybe not. And people, like me, say that math is hard.
Everyone loves celebrity divorces, even the ones involving sports celebrities. Boston just got a new reason to like the current A-Rod debacle: a new player emerged in the story. Boston’s most valuable player is not a member of the Red Sox. It’s not even a he. No, on this day, Boston’s MVP is more like an MVS-Most Valuable Stripper.
A former in stripper in Boston claims that she single-handedly changed the face of baseball history—by bonking (married) New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez in his hotel room during the 2004 American League Championship Series, thus causing his team to collapse in a historically unprecedented fashion against their arch nemesis Boston Red Sox, allowing that city to claim its first World Series title in 86 years (which, let’s be perfectly honest about, they have not shut up about since and have totally allowed bandwagon jumpers to hop aboard). She’s like Shoeless Joe Jackson, but instead of shoes, she just takes off her bra.
“Bra-less Candy”, perhaps?
Every few years, I find that it’s time to clean out the old lexicon. Everyday language is a constantly evolving collection of trendy phrases from movies, literature, music and–as The Guys would like to think–blogs.
But as time marches on, those phrases cease to remain useful. Sometimes they’re no longer relevant, other times they’ve been brow-beaten so low that they no longer hold any real meaning. It’s time to flush these five clichés so we can make room for newer, more interesting terms.
Continue reading Take it from Snee: Cleaning out the language gutters
