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How verbal hedges can get you out of yard work
By Curtis Honeycutt At the dawn of every springtime, I make a list of things I want to do in my lawn and garden. This year, I hope to grow items to make salsa, increase […]
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The loneliest words in the dictionary
By Curtis Honeycutt Talking about unpaired socks is like talking about the need to eat food — it happens to everyone. Anyone in the history of humanity who has ever done a load of laundry […]
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There’s some extra pleonasm on your shirt
By Curtis Honeycutt In the “Ghostbusters” movies, the eponymous heroes blast ghosts and otherworldly beings with their proton packs, and the ghosts explode into a mess of slimy green ghost goo. This goo is called […]
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The best of both (hybrid) words
By Curtis Honeycutt Our family bought a minivan last year. With child number three on the way, we needed more room for car seats and Cheerio dust. While some people hesitate to get on board […]
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Top 10 things y’all gotta stop doin’
By Porkrinds Stiles (Dear readers: Porkrinds has been pestering me for a chance to pen another column. It’s been a while so I figured with the State of the Union, Chinese spy balloons and the Doomsday […]
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Throwing the book at Captain Hook
By Curtis Honeycutt Before I slash at Captain Hook’s character, I want to say this: if I could grow a twisty mustache like Captain Hook, I would absolutely do it. I wouldn’t give up my […]
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If you squint, it almost makes sense
By Curtis Honeycutt I didn’t wear glasses until I was 19. As an up-and-coming visionary word nerd, I had never thought I needed corrective lenses. Of course, I always fancied monocles, although I didn’t know […]
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Will ChatGPT replace human writers?
By Curtis Honeycutt Welcome to the year of AI content creation. From writing to artwork created by artificial intelligence software, the internet is embracing this “make the computer do it for me” approach. Soon after […]
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It’s not as bad as it sounds
By Curtis Honeycutt I’ve been accused of acting my shoe size more times than I can count. I’m OK with that. Why is that, you ask? Kids have way more fun. If we take ourselves […]
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A primer on nice-sounding words and names
By Curtis Honeycutt There’s a subreddit page I like to visit called r/eyebleach. It essentially gives your eyes a break from scrolling through cynical and often disturbing Reddit entries by showing photos of kittens, baby […]