Thursday, October 22, 2020

BAITED BREATH

 FOUND ON YOUTUBE: Baited breath.

I was just watching an episode of NCIS: Los Angeles, and Callan said he was waiting with "bated breath." The transcription program said Baited breath.

Baited sounds fishy to me.

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Monday, October 19, 2020

PASTRAMI ON A BEAGLE

FOUND ON YOUTUBE: Pastrami On A Beagle (Pastrami, lettuce, beagle)

This is obviously on a restaurant menu. They meant Pastrami: On a bagel. If you put pastrami on our beagle Dixie, she'd happily eat it.

By the way, the price of this pastrami on a beagle is $3.89. That's a bargain.

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Saturday, October 17, 2020

DIRECTOR OF POLLING

FOUND ONLINE: “In a place like Georgia, there are going to be long lines when the polls close, and many of those people are going to go home,” said Patrick Murray, the director of polling at Monmouth University, who has polled Georgia twice this year.

The writer is trying to do too much here. I'd put a period after University and start another sentence saying that Murray has twice polled Georgia this year.

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