[rant on] Over the past couple of days I have spent close to five hours transcribing some Sheriff's Department interviews. I am so very, very, very tired of hearing "you know," "you know what I mean," and "like" every, like, you know, like three or four, like, you know, words, like, you know what I mean? Good grief! Who taught these young people English?!? It's astounding! [rant off] Okay then . . .

My pet peeve is when women exclaim: "OH, MY, GOD!" with that dramatic pause between each word. Another one that gets me is, "People that signed up for today's race...." or "the players that were in the building said..." (instead of "who"). We had a Dallas Cowboys training facility blow down here today and the newspeople misused this construction about 4 times. Small markets, bad speaking. And I mention this at this particular point in time, because that being said, at the end of the day, when all is said and done, most people speak poorly. Spareribs

Spareribs, whom I would like to meet some day, is correct. Out for 6 very pleasant miles with DW today. It was a little windy, but we both enjoyed the run. After the run we finished at a local park and did an interesting workout, 5 rounds of 30 kettlebell swings, 30 burpees, and 30 glute-ham sit-ups with a 3Kg medicine ball...oh we know how to have fun! SLO wrote: Around here the say; "If you ain't Dutch, you ain't much" I had some Dutch friends and for their family reunion they made shirts that said: I'd rather be Dutch, wooden shoe?