Satirist, songwriter, pianist, and mathematician Tom Lehrer (1928–2025) came up with one of the less inspirational—and funnier—variations on the familiar “Life is like…” formula: In his spoken introduction to his…
Month: September 2026
“Have Gun – Will Travel” lives on as a linguistic “snowclone” and in reruns…
Today, the linguistic formula “Have X [some work tool] – Will Y [do something]” is firmly cemented into our language. Prior to the 1950s, it wasn’t. On September 14,…