KCAL - CBS Los Angeles
Well done, Sir.
Edited on May 15, 2020 12:02pm
KCAL - CBS Los Angeles
Well done, Sir.
Very nice! Thanks for the link, Don.
People are champing (not "chomping") at the bit to come to Vegas and lose their money.
Wouldn't it be simpler and easier to withdraw the max from an ATM, make a little pile of bills in your back yard, set fire to it, and then dance around it, drinking a beer?
The result will be the same as after a Vegas trip, except you'll still have the whole weekend to do something else.
From NPR: Is it Chomping or Champing ?
Conclusion:
We've been . . . itching to issue a note about some picky point of punctuation or grammar. After chewing on this one for a while, we're not going to insist on "champing". Feel free to use it. After all you'll score points with the lexicographers out there.
But "chomping" is fine.
I know quite a bit of people chomping at the bit to go back to Vegas - myself included. I want to make sure all my local hot spots get an infusion of my business so as to help make it through this challenging time.
- Frankie's Tiki Room
- Johny Mac's
- Crepe Expectations
- The Donut Bar
- Jerry's famous coffee shop
- many others
Besides, it would be a shame to let all those matchplays go to waste.
Kevin, must you always insert your party-pooping thoughts, even when the title reflects a pleasant, non-partisan theme? Did you view AC's interview? Ah, well, free country and all that.
Horses do "champ" at the bit. I knew that, but I assumed the pronounciation, chaahhmping, was an affectation of speech from an era of wealthy European dialect, like "dahhhling" for "darling", that eventually became chomping. Or maybe I dreamed that up, made it up, something.
I've always said chomping, not being related to horseracing nor to wealthy Europeans. Down here in hicksville, champing would just get a puzzled look.
Candy, I know you disapprove of everything I say, but I have a valid point I'm trying to make.
Many Vegas visitors are addicts. That's why the casinos have been able to turn into gougefests---because they know people will come anyway.
But you know one way to treat addiction? Hard-core abstinence. That's been enforced the last couple of months, like it or not. So since we're all being weaned anyway, why not stay off the tit for good?
I'm sure that the vast majority of us could have bought a nice car, and maybe a house, with all the money we've given Vegas. For me, it would be much worse if I hadn't gone hardcore AP twenty years ago. But I think I'm still behind.
So this disaster might be a good time to break the cycle of addiction for good. Despite your snide remarks, Candy, I consider that a strongly positive development.
Oh my.
