Lunch yesterday with pal Pat McGuire, the most literate county treasurer in the history of the nation.

Pat tossed out a phrase, I forget the book he cited, "The Canadian spoke like a thrifty man sending a telegram."

That's a good one.

I was also thinking the other day about my dad's favorite line, "You can say what you want with a slide trombone, but with words you gotta be careful."

Keep it going, readers.