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Stephen Vincent wrote: >Google sucks. > >(Or do suck Google?) > >Some of those, Rebecca, were Google sucking good! > >Stephen V >Blog: http://stephenvincent.durationpress.com > > Sucking? Gentleman named Mike Feder who used to host a show on WBAI in New York, called "Hard Work." He was (may still be) a storyteller and monologist. One of the few guys I could listen to doing nothing but talking, an hour at a time. I don't do comparisons. Was he better than Spaulding Gray? No idea. Feder years ago during his first(?) marriage talked on-air about common descriptors. I am paraphrasing. "It sucks," he says. "Does anyone think about that expression? I watch my wife as she nurses our baby. The baby sucks on my wife. It's beautiful to see, what happens between them. Makes me look differently at how we use that sort of language." Google sucks what? Who sucks what? What does "suck" mean? It doesn't quite suggest nursing, does it? The way it's used it doesn't quite suggest oral sex, either. The sound of dirty water going down a clogged drain? Someone inhaling on a joint? The slurpy sound of someone trying to get soup into his mouth without spilling half of it on the table? Then why not "It slurps"? Can you tell I don't have enough to do today since everyone's out? Ken -- Kenneth Wolman Proposal Development Department Room SW334 Sarnoff Corporation 609-734-2538