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Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Why are those candy-on-a-stick things called "suckers"? Shouldn't they be called "suckees"? The person is the sucker; the candy is the thing being sucked. Who names candy, anyway?

1 comment:

Cheshire Adams said...

Oh, uh, I name candy. I have a peppermint stick left over from the holidays that I call "Patricia."

(God, I'm pathetic....responding to my own posts now.....)