...and every bit of it is Frankenstein

Last week, I watched Eddie Izzard's Definite Article. At one point, he was talking about stupid sayings; about expressions that didn't seem to make any sense. Later in his show, he said, "Let bygones be bygones", then stopped and in his conversational style, said, "See?! What does that mean?! What's a bygone?!" He thought for a second and said, "Oh. Right. It's something that's gone by. Well. That makes sense, then."

It's this kind of thinking that doesn't exist in too many places. English is a language that seems full of words, grammar and expressions that don't seem to make logical sense, but it's pretty incredible how many people don't seem to ever really understand what they're saying. It sounds good, but if they stopped and thought about the words they've put together for five seconds (or less), they might realize that it doesn't actually make sense.

All this is an unnecessarily long-winded way of saying that, this weekend, the Today show had a feature on an environmentally-friendly car show, and one woman interviewed there claimed that if she had her way, she would have a car that's "100% hybrid".