In the beginning, Atlanta was without form, and void; and it still is. - Roy Blount Jr.

Any given generation gives the next generation advice that the given generation should have been given by the previous generation but now it's too late.

I know, you want to make a citizen's arrest of anyone whose menu lists "Idaho potato baked in it's skin," but you can't.

English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around a gnarly core of chewy, clangorous yawps derived from ancestors who painted themselves blue to frighten their enemies.