words, words, words

All 50 states have reported and I am changing my name to “Coplips”.

“President Bush called on Major League Baseball on Wednesday to take “strong steps” to confront the use of steroids and other illegal performance-enhancing substances by players.”

I know that I´ll sleep easier at night.

iro·ny

Pronunciation: ‘I-r&-nE also ‘I(-&)r-nE

Function: noun

Inflected Form(s): plural -nies

Etymology: Latin ironia, from Greek eirOnia, from eirOn dissembler

1 : a pretense of ignorance and of willingness to learn from another assumed in order to make the other’s false conceptions conspicuous by adroit questioning — called also Socratic irony

2 a : the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning b : a usually humorous or sardonic literary style or form characterized by irony c : an ironic expression or utterance

3 a (1) : incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result (2) : an event or result marked by such incongruity b : incongruity between a situation developed in a drama and the accompanying words or actions that is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play — called also dramatic irony, tragic irony

synonym see WIT

On the highway from Las Vegas to Los Angeles, there are frequent traffic jams — in the middle of the desert. For some reason, people slow down, and even stop, when there is nothing for miles except their own fears and insecurities. These collective fears cause traffic jams.

There are also bottles on the side of the road, 1 liter Pepsi bottles, 32 oz Gatorade bottles, most of them filled with urine.