Shared baseball team: a cockamamie idea
A Toronto Star writer goes off on Montreal and Tampa Bay sharing a baseball team as a terrible idea: “it was cockamamie when it was first proposed and it’s cockamamie today.”
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Mitchell 06:18 on 2021-09-28 Permalink
I love that word, cockamamie. Such a treasure.
Mitchell 06:20 on 2021-09-28 Permalink
And such an interesting history: https://www.vocabulary.com/articles/wordroutes/a-far-fetched-etymology-that-seems-a-little-cockamamie/
Kate 09:00 on 2021-09-28 Permalink
That’s great, Mitchell, thank you!
Kevin 14:05 on 2021-09-28 Permalink
Anyone who doesn’t think it’s a scam should visit the Videotron Centre.
You can park right by the front door 24/7, 365+.