Presumably this would be fairly intimidating to face in the late innings, when the game is on the line.

It might also be Rivera's ticket to admittance to Posada and Jeter's late night steam room sessions. Hopefully, for everyone's sake, they come up with a safe word that English and Spanish speakers both understand.

courtsesy of phass:

All right, so this month's quiz might be a bit on the cheap and tricky side, but its answer does contain an interesting bit of linguistic trivia that might come in useful in a bar wager situation. As an aside, I have logged way more hours than are strictly healthy in bars throughout my life, and have never been privy to any sort of bar wager, or parlor game trick demonstration or the like. Am I just hanging out in the wrong places, or is the bar bet construct in fact apocryphal?

In any case...

You find yourself in a setting where, for whatever reason, you are asked to provide one hundred words in ninety seconds, none of which can contain the letter 'A'. It is up to you to determine if this situation will result in really great stuff for you if you provide the answer (game show, with a prize of ONE MILLION DOLLAR or something like that), or if something really terrible will occur if you fail (you being shot in the head, juice being turned on to an electrical grid on which a puppy is resting, etc.) Whatever motivates you, that is the scenario.

HINT: There is a pattern to the "correct" solution that enables you to quickly pull the 100 required words that don't have 'a' in them.

You can thank P Po for this. Direct all "I'm wasting my life." comments his way. It is unclear what good things, if any, occur after 10k points.

Use your best Kaboom skillz to find out.

From The Smoking Gun:

JANUARY 7--Meet Jacob Soto. The 19-year-old Texas man was arrested New Year's Eve when a house party celebrating a buddy's wedding got rowdy. Soto, a groomsman at the nuptials, started running his mouth at cops responding to a noise complaint, and soon found himself in cuffs for allegedly being drunk and disorderly. That's when Soto began making what lawyers call "statements against your judicial interest," as detailed in the below Nacogdoches Police Department report. It's never a good idea to tell the fuzz that you: a) push a pound a week; and b) consider them to be pussy suckers.