(WYTV) – We’ve been using the phrase “rule of thumb” for hundreds of years. It first appeared among the collected sermons of a Scottish preacher named James Durham in the mid-1600s. He wrote that a ...

That master of light poetry, Ogden Nash, wrote, “Here’s a good rule of thumb; too clever is dumb.” He could have been referring to a recent piece of light journalism by Michael Sebastian in Esquire ...