As a child I used to bug adults with silly jokes, and I still remember several about spiders (when something makes them mad, it drives them up the wall, etc.). There have always been jokes about ...

A number of years ago, someone who I know bought one of those exercise “steps.” For those of you not familiar with this type of product, it is a plastic step used for aerobic fitness, or so I was told ...

My wife and I divorced "on paper" because I had a pending IRS problem. We continued to live together for a year but then recently split for real. In an effort to protect as many assets as possible, we ...

Spider-webbing is when someone keeps you trapped in a toxic relationship with an elaborate web of deceit and manipulation. Source: Studio-Annika/Getty Oh, what a tangled web some people weave when ...

Crooks, Jeffrey A. 2001. "Oh what a tangled web...The invasion of the mussel Musculista senhousia into marine ecosystems." Dreissena, 11 1–15.

The timing of the recent announcement that former president Joe Biden has been diagnosed with late-stage prostate cancer brought to mind an expression first coined by Sir Walter Scott (1808): "Oh, ...

As the Scottish historian and poet Sir Walter Scott has said, “Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.” Today I want to share a true story with you that fits this saying to ...

We'll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes; but the plural of ox became oxen, not oxes. One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese, yet the plural of moose should never be meese. Get any of ...