I didn’t watch football last weekend. Sounds pretty un-American. I just don’t much like football and I’m finding that the older I get, the less I enjoy watching television in general. So the chances that you’ll catch me watching something on television that I don’t particularly like anyway are pretty darn remote. But still, my hat’s off to all professional football players, I admire their fortitude, athletic skill and sheer strength. And congratulations NO Saints – great game, great season!*********
I went out for dinner with some friends last Saturday night, had two absolutely delicious French pear martinis during dinner. They knocked me on my very own butt. Didn’t even feel it coming. Not the outcome I would have selected for that evening, needless to say. Ix-nay on the artinis-may for moi, at least for the foreseeable future.
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I was driving home one evening last week behind a regional freight truck with the corporate slogan painted in a very stylish script along the rear panel of the truck. It said: Service Unexcelled. I kept looking at it trying to figure out what that actually meant. I even looked up the word ‘unexcelled’ in an online dictionary. Of course, the language is absolutely correct, but that doesn’t mean that it isn’t just the tiniest bit awkward. Perhaps I need to chalk up the string of double negatives in the preceding sentence on that awkward list too, come to think of it.
Happy Tuesday.
-Diane
Boy do I hate football. I'm totally happy the Saints won, as a testament to New Orleans & all it has overcome. But you know, that loud annoying sound from the crowd and the ongoing yelling of the announcers on tv...it drives me crazy! I do get excited for the well earned trip to special games--such excitement--but not my thing either. I'm not a big drinker, but once in a blue moon I love a pomegranate martini. Mmmm!
ReplyDeleteNot much into football but do enjoy the SB commercials. In the past week I run across pear martini and pear mojito (I think) several times. I must really be missing out on something in this lifetime. I like drinks that you can't taste the alcohol...they just don't like me. For some reason they just shove me to the ground before I know it, so I try to stay away from them. I think I would have been a bit taken back had I seen that truck, and I probably would have gone home and looked it up, too!
ReplyDeleteNo football? But your in Texas right? That's the heart of football nation! there's no way you can avoid that!
ReplyDeleteI hate that service unexcelled slogan. It just sounds too weird and wrong!
ReplyDelete"Unexcelled".....one has to assume they don't know what this means. To excel usually means to go faster or do better (a dirivative of Excellent) and actually not a word. To Un - Excel would be to do worse or not do you best, as in un-excellent. They were probably trying to strive for doing better than anyone else, but that certainly isn't the end result. Another excpetional example of the dumbing down of America......you should have taken a picture.
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