Writing this post brought back memories. In 1982, I was shopping for a car and a dealer tried his best to sell me a DeLorean at a bargain price. It was funny because the John DeLorean story was still in the news and the car was a joke. I asked him where could I get service and parts for it. He said, "Here ...until I get rid of these four cars." We both laughed.

Fast forward 25 years. Early in my writing career, I made a list of cars as metaphors. I wrote about the DeLorean as a metaphor for "failure." I then found out that the internet was populated by people 10-15 years younger than I am. The readers raked me over the coals, because a DeLorean to them is a "time machine." They were young when Back to the Future came out, and completely missed the joke that the DeLorean was selected for the film because it was a failure (although a pretty cool-looking one). I, being an adult in 1985, really enjoyed the movie but missed how important it became to kids of that time.

We can laugh, but if you've ever had kids between, say two and six years old, you have to deliberately teach this stuff.

My town has three McDonald's, and you can smell each of them at least that far away. Luckily, they are clustered with other aromatic restaurants.

Cheetah: "Sorry, gazelle, I don't have time to eat you, I've got a race to win!"

This post is a breathtakingly perfect example of doublespeak. What is it about, anyway? A person with low vision using a text-to-speech app would be flummoxed.

"92% coverage, but it also could be obscured by clouds." A dark day, indeed.

Mine just says 3M. Must be a counterfeit.