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I've been thinking about phrases that use an adjective whose opposite you never hear in that context. We talk of slow news days, but is there ever a fast one? We have a Deep South; does that make Virginia part of the Shallow South? (How ironic that the region most stereotyped for low intellect is called "deep.")

Also drawing my attention of late is the presence of two "gentlemen's clubs" on my office's block, only two or three doors down from one another. Aside from the fact that most patrons probably don't act like gentlemen there, I notice that one of the clubs puts the apostrophe after the S, rendering it a club for gentlemens. If I were into that kind of scene, I know which joint I'd try first.

Hm, think I care about language a little too much? Maybe I'll give that up next Lent.