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What about a Swiss Army knife? The Swiss Army? Sounds made up if you ask me....

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Yeah, the Swiss don’t have an army - they’re always neutral.

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Rule of Three Vodka would get a lot of people in trouble.

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I don’t know, Melvin - it aligns pretty well with Rule No. 1 (Secure a beverage).

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One of the pleasures of writing fiction is getting creative when naming characters. Laughed when I saw your reference to Zapruder. In a book I am working on I used the name Zapruder for a character's last name. The character is so tired of being asked if he is "the Zapruder" he changes his last name to Zap. Jimmy Zap. Now I'm thinking his dog should be named Oswald or Ruby.

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Zapruder is a great name for a fictional character. . .or a dog.

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Apr 20Liked by Bill Southern

To keep the list going, I would add the unfortunate case of Mario Mendoza, a light-hitting shortstop in the late 1970s and early 1980s who became shorthand for the worst offensive output tolerated from a big-league baseball player, and then more broadly with the worst output tolerated in any given context!

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The “Mendoza Line” is another excellent example. I touched on his ignominy briefly in a past column. . .

https://ruleofthree.substack.com/p/mediocre-major-league-baseball-catchers?utm_source=publication-search

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