cold; hyperpasteurization; ends in X

[fflo]

Kinda sounds like categories in Jeopardy!.

Yes, it's co-oh-old out there. Don't have the storm windows on yet, either, so the bottoms of the windows are decorated with arcs of frost---picturesque, sure, but I wish I'd gotten the storms in. Way too cold to try to do it today.

I've just been able to eat my knock-off rice Chex, embellished with Kroger crunchy-raisin-date-'n'-flakes, despite the fact that my milk, purchased in October, supposedly expired 10 days ago. It's Horizon organic hyperpasteurized. Some bloke in the Busch's pointed it out to me and H after overhearing our debate in the dairy section about how much milk we'd be likely to consume before it turned. For a tidge more moolah, a miracle: a half gallon to work through at a snail's pace, if need be. Plus it's organic.

And now, my first Prediction for the New Year: after the trouble with Celebrex on top of the trouble with Vioxx, drug companies will shy away from the catchy invented names that end in "-x".

Comments

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Hey, I just thought of the Britishism that sounds strangest to us at Math Reviews. It's the plural after "of" in constructions like

"this kind of results"

or

"a certain type of pigeons"

---that hits the American ear most oddly.

[charlottecooper.livejournal.com]

That's true. But Math Reviews should surely be Maths Review?

I always find constructions like apricot-strawberry-banana pie difficult to swallow. What happened to the "and" between them?

[fflo.livejournal.com]

good point!