Marty H

At my local Cosi coffee store, the menu says the coffee I can get is: house, decaf, and cafe blend.

No one at the store knows what "cafe blend" is, and I'm not getting any answers from their website or email support. Do any of you know?

Please, no "guesses", just post an answer if you know what it is.

A few time this year, I've seen the play clock go down to zero, but delay of game is not called. Ok, I thought, the officials didn't see it.

But in the Steelers/Chargers game on Nov. 16, the announcers were talking about a play, and this was said (I am quoting exactly, as I have the game recorded, and am listening to it as I type this)

"They may have gotten away with an extra half second or a second to get that snap off"

"Well that does happen. They're allowed that."

HUH?? That threw me. I've been searching and searching, but can't find out what the heck he was talking about. How is it "They're allowed that"??

I've noticed over the years that it has become more and more common for people to pose a question in this format:

"How to make a good meatloaf?" rather than "How do you make a good meatloaf?". The first phrasing is not a question.

I think I first started noticing it when seeing questions posed by middle-easterners whose first language is not English. So, I thought maybe in their language, that is proper sentence structure (just like someone who speaks spanish might say "dog brown" instead of "brown dog")

But, I've seen it become more and more prevalent. Just look at Yahoo answers for many examples!

So, I got to thinking, maybe I'm the one that's wrong. Maybe it is a properly phrased question.

So, any English experts out there...what's the scoop?

My uncle lives in Hospers, Iowa (zip code 51238), and is a truck driver. He'd like to get a cell phone for when he's on the road. He travels from Iowa out to the west coast about 2/month, and would only use it occasionally.

What network has the best coverage for Iowa, going west, and should he get a pay-as-you-go phone, or a regular plan?