DAMMIT, i know it.

they also used to say “go in the khaki” meaning, enlisting in the army…

but now kahkis are made from the same material, so they dye the material...and call it khaki

Terra Cotta - same thing. Or opposite actually. When my mother asks me to hand her the terra cotta pot while she’s gardening, I explain to her that the pot is actually plastic and that terra cotta is a kind of clay, not a color, so she should ask me to hand her the plastic pot that is the same color as a terra cotta clay pot but costs a great deal less. This is when she usually hits me with her trowel. I don’t think I’ll mention the blue khakis she’s wearing.

YES! YES! YES! You understand me!  I’m not alone! More power to the linguistically alert!  “Umbrella” means little shadow!  “Toilet” means a cloth cover placed on a cabinet where one keeps cosmetics!  Nothing means anything!  Total freedom!  I mean, within reason.  Watch out for those soldiers and trowels.  Weapons and gardening are a dangerous combination.  Ask the guy who invented the exploding garden weasel.

I’ve always thought of khakis as brownish-yellowish pants.  If I heard someone refer to blue khakis, I’d probably stroke out.

if you start some sort of khakis-must-be-khaki movement, can you also tell people to stop calling navy things “denim”?  i’m not linguistically alert, i’m just a fashion snob.  or i would be, if i were fashionable.

Kate you are so right!  “Denim” is fabric in the style made popular in the french town of Neimes, or Niemes, or whatever; it was sturdy and popular with the army’s tentmakers in france and later in the u.s.  Levi Strauss used this tent fabric to make his famous pants.  “Jeans” refers to fabric from Genoa, Italy, also sturdy fare for outdoor labor.  So Denim Jeans means French-Italian work fabric.  It has nothing to do with the color.  Can’t we all just get along and use the right goddamn word to describe what the hell we’re talking about?  Good!  I thought so!

wait.  go back.  your priest bills you?  and it comes overdue?  holy crap.  (no pun intended).

maybe you need to pick out a new spiritual guide.  they should *definitely* have a catalog for that.

i knew my son was not really meant to play high school hockey when one of the assistant hockey coaches (a damned lawyer—who should know better) told me snottily that he didn’t appreciate matt correcting him in front of the other kids.  he said, “what are you inferring?” and matt said “don’t you mean implying?” idiot.  don’t get me started on this kind of crap.  you just keep doing it.  much better than i could.  but here’s my assignment: 

very unique (or somewhat unique)-- arghhhhh

canceled is spelled here in the u.s. just the way i typed it there.

judgment—only one e—see? 

do you know people who say death instead of deaf?  what is up with THAT? 

ok, that ought to keep you busy.

yet tragically I frequently get the spelling ones wrong.  and now I’m wondering about the kind of world where an atty is working as asst h.s. hockey coach.  Too many questions about that, and not enough room in my brain at the moment.

"Suppos-ably” you can call to have your name deleted from the catalog senders. But, then I noticed after I did that several times, now they just come in triplicate.
I begged the post office to do something about this, I did. They put up recycling bins.