Tight squeeze "This is a photo of my mother's effort at turning her car around inside her garage yesterday," writes a reader. "After putting her car away on the left side of the garage the night before, she then couldn't open that door the next morning. So she tried to turnthe car around to drive out the right side. This is where she ended up."
Say what you really mean
Office jargon translation - don't get caught using lame words.
10. "Take it to the next level" - Improve (alternatively, avoid dealing with abstract "levels" altogether and give your colleagues a tangible goal).
Striking while the iron (and everything else) is still hot The best time for freelance insurance adjusters, restoration workers and other contractors in the United States to make sales pitches, apparently, is while firefighters are still on-scene fighting the fire - because if they don't, competitors will get the business. "They are very aggressive," said a fire lieutenant, nodding to the salesmen's use of police scanners to beat them to the fires. Florida used to have a 48-hour keep-away rule to let the bereaved settle in, but the state Supreme Court said that violated free speech. (Source: Weird Universe)
Vintage: This series of photographs, scrolling left to right between two pictures of people when they were young and when they are old, is mesmerizing...
