Damn English!

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This book will have a quite broad audience... Gratifying level of surprises and loving twists on usage... Nice range of humor from slapstick to self-reflective. -Sue Ducharme <em>TextWorks</em></strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Welcome to the latest word on atrocious English from wierd - er weird - spelling to idiotomatic expressions to modest proposals for change wherein we tackle such pressing contemporary English language issues as:</span></p><ul><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Did sh*t ever actually hit a fan?</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Once and for all who's the smartest: brain surgeons or rocket scientists?</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Which is the more persuasive: having someone over a barrel or by the balls?</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>What difference is there if any between an old coot an old fogey and an old geezer - and while we're on the subject do we still need to employ the adjective old?</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>When is it wiser to go with I don't give a rat's a*s over I don't give a flying f*ck?</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Taken together are No way Jose and Yesiree Bob racist?</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>What's the point of saying It is what it is when in all of human history it's never once happened that something is what it isn't?</span></li></ul>