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It was great to see the main rap from Hustle and Flow win the Oscar for best song, but did they really have to alter the chorus to sing about "a whole lot of [w]itches jumping ship"? I'm as sensitive as the next guy, but witch just doesn't make any sense in that context. They might as well have sung "It's hard out here for a wimp."

When did touch base morph into touch bases?

Is it because few people still follow baseball? In baseball touching base is making an important connection. Touching bases sounds like two people each holding some kind of “base” and touching them together. I can’t picture it.

A friend on a mailing list, writing to another friend who's contemplating a move, passed along this wonderful quotation:

Someone had mentioned an analogy that had begun to prey on my mind. Going to California, he had said, was like entering a swimming-pool. It was pleasant, you swam a few laps, and before you knew it, you were fifty years old.

- Vikram Seth, Two Lives

Things you will never hear on the Band Bus...

1. Ladies, I'll need to see some proof of age, please.
2. Boy, I can't wait till we get to Okaboji.
3. No, I could hear the monitor just fine, I screwed up the change.
4. I walked her home, shook hands, and came straight back to the bus.
5. Go ahead and roll 'em down the aisle, they're only cymbals.
6. Should we go back and get the drummer?
7. Gee, I wish Buddy Rich was on the bus with us.
8. The leader nailed every tempo perfectly again tonight!
9. Wow! Everybody played perfectly in tune all night long, again!
10. Boy, it sure is fun playing all those old Glenn Miller and Armand Piron arrangements!
11. Can you believe all the money we're getting?
12. Man, I wish we could get the guitar player to turn up a bit louder.
13. No thanks, I don't smoke that stuff.
14. Hey, who cleaned up in here, this bus smells like a spring breeze.
15. I sure hope we reach the next town in time for Mass.
16. What a great career! Sure glad I didn't become a dermatologist like I'd planned!
17. I can't wait to get to my private hotel room so I can have eight hours' uninterrupted sleep, a swim in the pool and a couple of margaritas with my complimentary steak dinner before the gig!
18. Yeah, I got into music mainly because of the money, job security, benefits and the opportunities for advancement... and these great bus trips, of course!
19. We close Sacramento Saturday night and open Butte Monday - Sunday's sure gonna be fun!
20. Hey guys, let's do "The Bear Went Over The Mountain" just one more time, ok?
21. So, are you more heavily invested in growth or value funds?
22. Nice to be back in this cozy bus again, hangin' with my pals.
23. Aren't these jazz festival promoters and club owners the salt of the earth?
24. Too bad our chick singer got pregnant. It sure is fun working with vocalists.
25. Don't you just love talking jazz with the fans? They are so knowledgeable.

Sue W. sent around this list and it's more comprehensive than a cursory check of Google could do (Things You'll Never Hear on a Musician's Tour Bus, Roadie.net: Top Ten Things You Will Never Hear on a Tour Bus), so I labored to HTMLify it for all you good people.