Thursday, February 22, 2007

Quote of the Day

From Mark Steyn’s most recent column in The Australian:

According to my dictionary, the word “ally” comes from the Old French. Very Old French, I’d say. For the New French, the word has a largely postmodern definition of “duplicitous charmer who undermines you at every opportunity”.

Read the whole thing.

Word of the Day

Beelzebug, n: Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.