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School is beginning for many this week and I want to share some insights to help the year start out with a bang. Here are some common Chinese Phrases with their translations to broaden your understanding. You may already know more than you think! Chinese Phrases———–Translations __________________________________________ Ai Bang Mai…

I came across this phrase yesterday “FENDER SKIRTS”. A term I haven’t heard in a long time and thinking about “fender skirts” started me thinking about other words that quietly disappear from our language with hardly a notice like “curb feelers”. And “steering knobs” (AKA) suicide knob. Since I’d been…

Jack is a common name in phrase, stories, and nursery rhyme. Each clue below leads to an answer containing “Jack”. Example: Halloween fixture = “Jack-o-lantern” 1. Handyman 2. Broken Crown 3. Classic Dive 4. Win Big 5. Hard Cider 6. Fat Wife 7. Toy (singular) 8. Paul Bunyan 9. British…

DOUBLE TROUBLE. Each of these 7-letter words have a double letter. Change them to a new double letter and you get a new word. Example: Cottage could be changed to Collage 1. SCUFFLE 2. MILLION 3. FOOLING 4. DRIBBLE 5. BAGGAGE 6. GAZETTE 7. COLLECT 8. HAMMOCK 9. CHANNEL 10.…

PALINDROMES. How many can you identify from their definition. Example: First name of the Grif.Net guru? “BOB” 1. Baby’s napkin 2. First woman 3. Monetary unit of India (and woman’s name) 4. Property paper 5. German king (and man’s name) 6. Twelve o’clock 7. Blow your horn 8. Chick vocalization…

Familiar quotations from memory? Often we THINK we know what they are, but we’re off a tad in a word, phrase or punctuation. 1. From “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” complete the following: “Water, water everywhere . . . 2. From Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”, what words follow “Alas, poor Yorick.”…

[Each day this week we will have some enjoyable “word play” games. You may want to stretch your brain privately or feel free to send me your answers. We’ll start easy!] Elizabeth Barrett Browning was not the first or last to ask, “How DO I love thee? Some suggested answers…

“Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.” (Job 28:28) [So how does one go about doing that? Fearing God and not doing wrong? St Paul gives us the answer in the first letter he wrote to the young church in Corinth,…

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished a how much he had learned in seven years. Mark Twain To an adolescent, there is nothing in…

“While childhood is the time of life when you make funny faces in the mirror, it is Middle Age when the mirror gets even.” “Middle age is…when you think all of your friends are showing their age…but not you.” “Middle Age is when I need my false teeth and my…

Charles Schultz: “I’ve developed a new philosophy… I only dread one day at a time.” Henny Youngman: “I’ve got all the money I’ll ever need, if I die by four o’clock.” Ann Landers: “Know yourself. Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.” Lewis Grizzard: “Life…

Quit worrying about your health. It’ll go away. I’m not old. I’m chronologically gifted. Birthdays are good for you. The more you have, the longer you live. It isn’t the age that bothers me. It’s the mileage. Support bingo. Keep Grandma off the streets. My wife gives me sound advice.…

When your dad is mad and asks you, “Do I look stupid?” don’t answer. Never tell your mom her diet’s not working. Stay away from prunes. Don’t pull your dad’s finger when he tells you to. Never leave your three-year-old brother in the same room as your school assignment. If…