Mislanguageable
The other day, as I was watching one of Nina's shows, either Blue's Clues or Play With Me Sesame, after the show, Moosehead Moose and Z (a bird) were going on about getting books from the library. But that's not what Moosehead said the second time he mentioned it. He said "liberry." Alison and I backed up the replay and sure enough, Moosehead Moose was telling our kids to go to the liberry.

Later, in my car, I was listening to 100.7 which happens to be some NPR channel. Normally I don't listen to NPR, but since I got a new battery last week, I'm taking my time and finding out all the different stations in the area when I set up my 18 presets. When the flat toned announcer made some announcement about something, it was, sure enough, at the Huntsville Public Liberry.

Another NPRism, and I think this is improper English, is that they said that some lady was "alleged for helping the resistance." Now, I can agree that she's an "alleged resistance helper", but I'm not sure if you can just be alleged for something. Hmm.

Viva La Pringles
Last week when the entire family unit went Wal-Marting for groceries, I picked up both a can of Pringles Sour Cream and Onion chips and the new competition, Lay's StaX Sour Cream and Onion chips. I had a little taste test.

The Stax are crunchier. But the Pringles are crispier. The Pringles are about three times thinner than the Stax and it makes quite a difference in the initial feel. Since I don't prefer a crunch over a crisp, really no chip was beating out the other in this category. That said, since the Stax was bulkier, it was more prone to feeling like you had processed mush in your mouth during the chewing of it. Since I don't stick three Pringles in my mouth at once, I don't have that problem with the Pringles.

The Pringles clearly won in the quality of flavor powder. It had more of a bite to it. Both flavors were acceptable, while not tasting like sour cream or onion really, but back to back the Pringles clearly won.

In the "What Will Alison Eat" test, it was discovered yesterday that Pringles were the clear winner, as there was only about an inch of the Stax missing, and the Pringles can was not to be found unless I went dumpster diving in our garbage can.

So, Pringles won. No surprise, really. And of note to the NAFTA hating demographic, Stax are made in Mexico.

William Tecumseh Sherman
I just found out about this cool General from the Civil war. He was on the US side (also known as the North by traitorous Southerners). And is most notable, in my opinion, for giving us the phrase "War is hell." He also said, in regards to him being made President, "If nominated, I will not run. If elected, I will not serve." The other nice quote he had was "If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast." Also, Sherman basically won the Civil war, thus preserving the US, by cutting off the supply lines of the rebel troops.

And yes, maybe I'm being a little baiting with all my "traitor" and "rebel" talk, but if the confederacy wasn't about being traitorous and destroying los Estados Unidos, then what was it about? Being a racist bastard maybe?
- posted by Nick Postagulous @ 9:31 AM