Fox News reporter on the lack of a verdict in the trial of a Baltimore police officer: "Officials are walking around on pins and needles." Due, no doubt, to the global egg shell shortage.

A Fox News commentator observed, "Donald Trump knows how the American people feel on a guttural level." We do growl a lot.

Heard on Fox News: "That will be a tough road to hoe." Especially if it's asphalt.

Found in a manuscript on leadership:"You need to make sure your people bring their motivational jeans to work." Will shorts serve the purpose?

From a DIRECTV description of a Mad Men episode: "Roger pawns off a project on Don." And for $5 he can get it out of hock.

Golf partner Bill Whigham said about a good fairway shot, "It went like hotcakes." And hotcakes run like the wind.

Contributed by sportswriter Ron Sirak, gleaned from a blog by a writer who shall, for obvious reasons, remain anonymous: 1. "It was beyond the reach of the average lame man." An insult to the physically challenged and nonprofessionals everywhere. 2. "She was a real pre-Madonna." Before the gave birth to Jesus, of course. But she was a pretty good dancer.