Three mint julep recipes and a story

Gibbons Burke has a valuable compilation of mint julep recipes, one embedded in a story by William Alexander Percy, uncle of Walker Percy.

It's a 'an' thing

Have you noticed it lately? If you listen to a few interviews on the radio, you'll almost certainly hear someone using 'a' instead of 'an' before a word that starts with a vowel. Drives me up the fargin' wall. Doesn't take much, huh?

The Mountain Dew Song

From our goofy 12-year-old, to the tune Jingle Bells:

Charging through the glue
with a can of Mountain Dew.
It's such a wonderful drink,
it would make a freighter sink.

Just take another sip,
and your black cat won't nip.
And we'll be running through the cheddar cheese tonight.

Mountain Dew, Mountain Dew
sipping all the way.
Oh what fun is to have
a can of Mountain Dew.

Mountain Dew, Mountain Dew
sipping all the way.
Oh what fun it is to have
a can of Mountain Dew.