One of my favorite weekly contests is the Washington Post's Style Invitational. I've been reading it for fifteen or so years now, and frequently laugh out loud at the entries, forcing people around me to stop and listen as I read aloud to them.
Many commuters in the Washington area share the amount of time it takes me to drive to work, although their distance is probably shorter.
I laughed out loud when I saw this entry today:
My long commute is brutal, but it gives me a lot of time to listen to language tapes. Now I can say "get off your bleepin' phone and drive, you idiot" in Mandarin, Basque and Urdu. (Keith Waites, Frederick)
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