Sunday, June 8, 2025, John Kugelman

MEETING THEIR MATCH

Seems like a long way to go for these animal pairs. Eel and Rat, Ass and Elk, Ant and Dog... Would these things attract one another? What about Doe and Stag? Mare and Stallion? Sure, it would have been harder, but as it is, well, I don't know.

I have never run into the work BORK used to mean "Break, slangily." I looked it up and found that to some it means to obstruct, defame, or villify, surely stemming from the confirmation hearings of Robert Bork. Perhaps they mean "break" in the sense of "ruin the chances of," or something like that...

I liked FIXITINPOST (Deal with a problem later, as a filmmaker). And the plural seems a bit gratuitous in FRENCHOPENS, but it is timely. STEERTO (Point in the direction of) and LEDTO (Yielded) are a little duplicative. 

I like GLAMAZON (Tall, chic woman) as a word, and GOBANANAS (Lose it) is fun. And wouldn't it be nice if we had more use for the word RATIONAL these days? 

- Horace