How We Roll - 13 June 2016

<p>If you're serious about writing a memoir, what topics should you include, and what can you leave out? And how honest can you really be about the other people in your life? Some of America's leading memoirists wrote things they lived to regret. And: America's never faced the real possibility of a female president -- until now. So, what would be the male version of "First Lady"? First Laddie? First Dude? Plus, take me out to the ballgame: why those rows of benches are called bleachers, and why baseball fans sit in a place called the stands. Plus, cry uncle, servicing customers, Boaty McBoatface, GPS art, lawnmower parents, and names for toilet-paper rolls.<br /> <br /> FULL DETAILS<br /> <br /> What do you call the cardboard roll inside a roll of toilet paper? Many families have their own name for it, including der der and oh-ah, oh-ah.<br /> <br /> The bleachers in a baseball stadium are the unshaded benches that get bleached by the sun. The word stands, on the other hand, derives a 17th-century use of stand meaning a place for spectators, who either sat or stood, and is an etymological relative of the word station. The grandstand is an area of pricier seats, covered by a roof. The term grandstanding derives from the practice of baseball players showing off in front of the highest-paying spectators sitting there.<br /> <br /> A San Diego resident who grew up in Ethiopia wonders: If U.S. presidents' wives have always been referred to as the First Lady, what title is appropriate for the male spouse of a head of state? First Gentleman? First Dude?<br /> <br /> GPS art is the creation of a few bikers and runners who track their trips with an app and then post the image of the route they traveled online. The results so far include electronic "drawings" of Darth Vader, Yoda, and characters from Game of Thrones.  <br /> <br /> Scrabblepoor means "extremely poor," conjuring the image of farmers having to scrape together a living by literally scratching at the dirt. The word hardscrabble is more commonly used to describ