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Like a ship on its side, like a team in a slide
Q: What's the difference between foundering and floundering?
The Shadow knows!
If you want 3D on your TV, you have to pay more and wear ugly glasses. But you can get a subtle 3D effect in display type that's free, and even better, visible to the naked eye. Just add drop shadows.
Inconceivable! Make sure that word means what you think it means
Coopers Beach in the tony Hamptons was named the best beach in the country. And the Associated Press reporter likely thought he was putting on the Ritz when he began his report by declaring: "Hamptons hoi polloi probably assumed it was always No. 1."
When is a postcard not a postcard?
Q: I want to promote our new offer by sending out a postcard, but I'm not sure about the rules. How big or fancy can it be without it costing extra?
Don’t make us laugh about sad Queen Catherine
We have been burning the midnight Nook screen reading Vanora Bennett's The Queen's Lover. It's about the often grim life of Catherine de Valois, a.k.a. Mrs. Henry V, but despite the sassy title, it's not bodice-rippy or funny at all. So imagine our surprise when we found a series of humorous mistakes. Each features the right letters in the right order, but the wrong words are formed.