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Gun shop: N.R.A. stands for no rest allowed, as a quintet of bodybuilders arm-wrestle barbells and dumbbells after the Night of Champions Thomas Bengali has the kind of profile minted on an ancient coin, pecs like a Roman breastplate and abs that could be slathered with tomato sauce and ......(Continue Reading)
My six-year-old son buys potatoes at the greengrocer's for his Lone Star Super Spud Gun. Do greengrocers realise that, technically speaking, they're engaged Well, it was one of those bad day's, when the fiction leaps from Gabriel Garcia Marquez straight to Allan Massie. So I trudged across to the till with ......(Continue Reading)
Oh, so polite English? Two years ago, I had an experience similar to Mr. Petty's by being tossed out of a gun store in Doncaster, England (150 miles north of London). There ......(Continue Reading)
Machine Shop Pioneers - John Wilkinson - Thomas Blanchard Machine shop pioneers John Wilkinson and Thomas Blanchard...(Continue Reading)
German Loan Words in English A glossary of German loan words used in English....(Continue Reading)
Skating in Japan Japan takes it's own spin on skateboarding, but with some familiar twists. From polite punks being harassed by cops to paying your life savings for a set of blanks wheels, the state of skating in Japan is still actively evolving....(Continue Reading)
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