Some of my favourite euphemisms for the act of 'pooing' include: Growing a tail Having a bog Dropping the kids off at the pool Laying cable for Telstra (telecommunications provider) Giving birth to some brown twins Negotiating the release of the chocolate hostages Downloading some brownware. ...

It's raining today is basically used to tell someone its going to rain today. e.g. It's raining today, so you will need an umbrella. However, I doubt if it can be used in a present form to mean that it is raining presently. If you want to state it is raining presently, use "It's raining at the mo...

"It's raining today" is understood to mean that it is raining presently. Not necessarily at the instant of talking, but it has rained previously, and it will rain again later. "It's rainy today" depends on whether the 's is a was or a is. If it's a was, then it is stating that today has been wet...

It means that the maximum positive quality of the subject ("this") is to be annoying; that is the most it can ever achieve. The likelihood is that it is worse than annoying, since the odds of a thing being at its best all the time are small. Often constructions like this are counterbalanced with...

When I first got a computer as a child, and wanted to print a letter to send to a friend, my parents told me I should sign it by hand, rather than including my name in the printed letter, as it would seem more personal. At the time, I thought this was wrong. Signing something by hand implies all...

Lately I go to the main page and see a large quantity of flags in the little notification box at the top of the page, like this 53 flags is a lot, right? Like, an emergency maybe? So I click on it and there is one single flagged item: What gives? Is this FAD or a bug of some kind?

While walking on a path, sometimes two person try to dodge each other. Like one guy steps left, and at the same time, other guy steps left and then switches direction and so does the other guy. Is there a word to describe this?

I am searching for the correct term usage in my Java code, although you don't need to know anything about programming to answer my question. My 'something' can be 'required' (mandatory) or not (optional). If it's required, then I want a term that indicates if it's missing or not If it's not req...

I am having dificulty trying to distingush between "then" and "than". What I find confusing is their prononciation, and when to use them For example: He walked, stopped, than/then picked up a stone. Should it be "than" or "then", and why?

I know this may sound ridiculous, but when a person plays the ball while past the defender, there is a term for it which I can't remember. It refers to when there's a guy past the defenders, and someone passes the ball to him, then the umpire at the sidelines blows his whistle and raises the flag...

Both expressions mean the same thing. However, both of these pronouns have different rules of usages. In this case, they are both correct, because in some cases, like this case, they are interchangeable, but there are also instances when one of them can be used, but not the other: "I" is a firs...

There appear to be two ways to pronounce the last syllable based on deeply held beliefs and cultural divides and assumptions: Phi fi fo fum Fee phi fo fum? I've heard that (2) is the American pronunciation (as in the motor parts corp Delphi), although it's not how we pronounce it in my offic...

Actually, I decided not to fly as planes are overbooked, and the probability that I will actually get a standby seat is below my tolerance level Note will is bolded. Perhaps it should be would? What would be the difference in meaning?

It is essentially a reference to Harold Bloom's influential book Shakespeare and the Invention of the Human. Bloom's wildly audacious book posits that Shakespeare invented the modern milieu of existence. The only book I know as audacious as this — and somewhat similar — is Julian Jayne's The Or...