A Fox News reporter asked an expert on the contemporary music scene if he thought a young pop star would create more than one hit song. The expert said, "No, I think he's just a flash in the pants."

From The Cape Cod Times: "The FDR impersonator affected a stylish cigarette holder and a prince-nez." We bet he could do a great Prince Charles.

Found by son, Steph, on the door of a campus building in Oakland: "Turn off your cell phones and put them in your bag packs." Only if you pack your bags in your backpack.

"I enjoy raining horses." Did the author mean "training"? If so, that's a typo. If he meant "reining", that's a malaphor.

In a manuscript about improving state government: "The Oregon legislature got great results with a bottoms-up approach." Hmm.

An economist, answering a question about leveling economic sanctions against Russia: "That would be a thumb in Putin's nose."

Andy Levy on Red Eye, talking about new laws to prevent smoking outdoors: "That train has already sailed."