I never knew that they flew in a line. The English phrases are just perplexing, and some make perfect sense. But my cousin from Italy different English in school couldn’t figure out what are phrases meant. We probably have more than most languages.
Dark fuzzy clothes, now I know for next time!
Yes, we have a melange of different language idioms.
Probably because we have been a 'melting pot' of several cultures and languages ever since colonial days.
"Alas, Brave New Babylon"
https://askmarion.wordpress.com/2013/09/02/alas-brave-new-babylon/
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"Woke up to no power, the TV dead, everything dead that didn’t run on batteries. Anything that depended on the internet, cell service, wireless anything,
that was all dead too. My smart phone was brain dead. It could show me some of my old pictures and texts, but it couldn’t make a connection.
Same deal in the motel lobby: no power, no wireless connections, no credit cards."
"It had to happen sooner or later, and it happened sooner. We couldn’t even pump clean drinking water without electricity.
Electricity was the oxygen we breathed, and without our technology, we died like stranded astronauts on an abandoned space station.
Ground control to Major Tom, your circuit’s dead."
"In the crisis that befell us, metrosexual males who recently obsessed over their own appearances couldn’t even protect themselves,
much less any stray women, orphaned children, or the lost elderly of their extended clans.
These pitiful Peter Pans perished outright, or they were captured and enslaved, abused without mercy, and finally consumed for food."
"And no disappearing digits loomed larger during the Rupture than those on 50 million “Electronic Benefit Transfer” food-stamp cards.
The wisdom of a thousand generations of hard reality teaching stern frugality had been wiped out, encouraging generations of near imbeciles
to reproduce without limit—as long as those warm bodies could be rendered into votes for the Big-Government Party (left and right versions).
“It’s free, swipe your EBT” became a mantra of the age. It was racist to protest."
"And finally, the last old-guard bunker to fall: the Boy Scouts, completing the cycle of government-approved sodomite corruption.
For a century the Scouts were morally straight? According to whose definition of straight?
So why shouldn’t adult homosexual Scout leaders share tents with teenagers in our brave new world?
Don’t be a homophobe, we were told. Each child can make his or her own free choice about their gender identity,
but now with helpful adult mentors to guide them along the formerly forbidden paths."
"But not even the mass-murdering Soviet rulers were foolish enough to attempt to outlaw sexual differences and mandate a New Genderless Person
in the name of perfect political correctness. What sane person in the United States could possibly have thought that our own vastly more ambitious
experiment in social re-engineering would turn out any better than the simpler economic revolution attempted by the USSR?"