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The Seattle area has been hit with another legendary snowstorm, and it left Bellevue battered and bruised.  With record-low temperatures near freezing, Bellevue received a heavy snowfall that dumped nearly 0.1 feet of soft, fluffy, slippery white stuff throughout the area.  Some people are abandoning their cars, others are stopping to put chains on the front wheels of their BMWs and Mercedes.  The rest didn’t even get out of bed yet.  Double-length buses and tractor-trailers (lorries) are jackknifing and blocking onramps and hills.  Milk, beer and toilet paper are sold out throughout the area and it’s all descending into utter chaos.  The Governor has declared a state of emergency and is recommending that we all skip work and head immediately for the nearest ski slope.

Non-natives are wondering what all the fuss is about.

Why doesn’t anyone else seem to have a problem with the expression, pick and choose?  You don’t even have to think about this one very much to realize how redundant it is.  I don’t need to hear even one more person talk about picking and choosing their battles.  I wasn’t aware there was any difference between these things.  Is anyone out there picking and choosing their nose?  I can’t quite get my head around the point of this one nor figure out who’s to blame for it.

Lake Superior State University’s Public Relations department recently did a year-end piece on the top expressions of 2007 that have to go, and to my surprise this wasn’t among them.  Nor was that annoyingly overused and meaningless “Tipping Point.”  Both should’ve been. 

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