Words Worth Noting - September 5, 2026

“Ted Williams once said of the latter group [sportswriters, possibly Bostonian in particular] that you could pour hot water on them and get ‘instant s—t.’”

Colby Cosh in Western Standard May 21, 2007 [again bending my normal ban on cussing but my objection is not that you should never swear, it’s that you should do so rarely… for instance here; I’d been holding off using this one but surely you admit it’s funny and could not be said in any other way].