Your Weekly Whoomp

I found out recently that I’m about to become a grandfather again! My fourth grandchild, second grandson, is due around Thanksgiving! Maybe I’d better tell my sons what’s causing it, quick!
Yunno, this past week, a reporter wrote an article about the “Blackfeet Indians”! I read the article, but the content of the article was lost in the number of times he used the term throughout the article. Those of us who didn’t drop out of grade school know that there are no Blackfeet Indians. There is one Blackfoot Indian and there are many Blackfoot Indians. Blackfoot is the name of the tribe.
Except for the special detail I was on this last week, there’s not really not too much to whoomp about! It seems like every day, I learned some way to do my temporary job better or to make someone else’s job easier. The job had nothing to do with rocket science. I won’t bore you with the details, but we had to get vehicles of all kinds ready for shipment to Kuwait!
Anyway, let’s get on to the subject line!
Do you know what color a can of red paint is, before you open the can? The proper (according to some authorities) answer is, “Black, because there is no light to reflect.”
But someone else may say, “Don’t be ridiculous! Someone put red pigment into the paint, the can says ‘red’, and when you open the can, you don’t have to wait for even a short period of time to wait for the paint to turn red! Of course it’s red inside the can!”
But as I said in the subject line, this is not about the can of paint.
I cite the paint to show that this is a point about which you can argue. That is to say that the point is arguable. One might even say, “Arguably, the paint inside an unopened can of red paint is black!
Pet peeve!
People make statements like, “Arguably, the sun lights our days!” There’s nothing arguable about it! They should say, “inarguably” in its place!
Well, I got that off my chest! Time to put the soapbox away!