Day: January 21, 2011

Please don’t beat the Dutch.

It snowed again last night, though not enough to really cause much trouble with my morning commute. I was in at work by the not unreasonable hour of 8:30 a.m. And the day went by fairly quickly, especially right near the end, when all the steps involved in processing a countersigned book contract somehow made a couple of hours vanish right out from under me.

The bit of Forgotten English on my desk calendar today is “beats the Dutch,” meaning “something extraordinary.” The calendar goes on to inform me that “‘That beats the Dutch and the Dutch beats the Devil’ is the superlative.”

Today was really a Dutch-beating kind of day, but, amazingly enough, it’s the weekend again, so that’s nice.

Random 10 1-21-11

Last week. This week:

  1. “Livin’ in Deep 13” from MST3K, guessed by Eric B.
    I was alone with the world to tame
  2. “Saturday Night on Utopia Parkway” by Christine Fellows
    Night. There’s a lantern in your window
  3. “Toxic” by BossHoss (orig. Britney Spears)
    With a taste of your lips, I’m on a ride
  4. “She Came in Through the Bathroom Window” by Joe Cocker (orig. the Beatles), guessed by Clayton
    She said she’d always been a dancer
  5. “Paragraph President” by Blackalicious
    Government officials put taps on my mobile phones
  6. “Damnit Anna” by the Morning Benders
    But if you wanna meet the devil you gotta go to hell
  7. “Careless Talk” by Billy Joel, guessed by Kim
    Everybody’s making believe that they know
  8. “Everybody Hurts” by R.E.M., guessed by Eric B.
    Now it’s time to sing along
  9. “American Music” by Violent Femmes, guessed by Eric B.
    But nobody would go to the prom with me, baby
  10. “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes” by Crosby, Stills & Nash, guessed by Eric B.
    Please be gone, I’m tired of you

You know how this works, right? Good luck!