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• Dude and Dude: It’s A Lock

  
  O'Ceallaigh & The Quill — Authority: 127
  “Well, dammit , dude.” “You shoulda thought of that before it started raining , dude.” “Don’t rain on my parade, dude, things are already bad enough. I broke the key to the beer fridge .” “ Damn!! “ “You shoulda …” “Oh, shut up. I suppose you want me to run out and see if we can get ...
  20 hours ago

• Article Title Unknown

  
  Ambigrams by nagfa — Authority: 132
  Ambigram and cryptic wordplay: an-x-na.
  23 hours ago

• Something nasty in the cupboard

  
  Froogville — Authority: 432
  For a long time now a strange brown sludge has been dripping down the wall in my kitchen, and rendering a large patch of the topmost store cupboard (the one I cant see into) disgustingly sticky.   I cleaned it up as best I could, from time to time.  I had always assumed that it was an accretion of the sticky ...
  1 day ago

• Deep Thought

  
  bjkeefe — Authority: 142
  Has anything other than tones ever been dulcet ?
  2 days ago

• Why the China Daily is better than Global Times

  
  Froogville — Authority: 432
  Global Times is the new kid on the block for state-run English-language media in China, a daily newspaper that was founded 6 or 8 months ago.  Its aiming to be a bit more foreigner-credible than its elder sibling, China Daily : the propagandising is less relentless, the critical voice - just occasionally - given ...
  2 days ago

• Dude and Dude: Thanksgiving

  
  O'Ceallaigh & The Quill — Authority: 127
  “Hey dude!” “For the last time, dude. I am not a scarecrow!” “Oh, lighten up, willya? It’s almost Thanksgiving!” “It is? “ “Yeah, dude. You know, fourth Thursday in November? Same time every year?” “How come all I see are Christmas decorations, then?” “Look, can I help it ...
  3 days ago

• False Capitalization

  
  Crossword Unclued — Authority: 412
  False capitalization is the setters trick of making a common noun in the clue look like a proper noun, by changing the case of its initial letter. Example: FT 13209 (Alberich): Chap at universitys given introduction to Thomas Hardy (6) ROB US T In this clue, the definition "hardy" is written with a ...
  3 days ago

• Why Vampires dont work (2)

  
  Froogville — Authority: 432
  My frivolous little post the other day on how vampires cover their expenses  was but a prelude to this, what I think is the major implausibility about vampires.   Let us ignore the biology geeks objection about whether such a large and vigorous creature can sustain itself on blood alone (and, if it can, ...
  4 days ago

• ^*%)(%*!” Nutz

  
  Jacquie Phelan's Weblog — Authority: 410
  Pilfed from the great Stan Yen Ah, nothing new under the web. A week ago I did an originality check for “ A funny thing happened  on the way to the compost heap ” ( which Chas and his mom Carol think should be the title of my book). Excuse me,  but I don’t do derivative. Well, turns out Tallasiandude who ...
  6 days ago

• Dude and Dude: Luxury Box Living

  
  O'Ceallaigh & The Quill — Authority: 127
  “So, dude, how’s the house hunting?” “How should I know, dude? I ain’t never seen a house in camouflage going after big game, and I’m not sure I’d want to.” “ No , dude. The big game’s in the house, on the big screen in the living room. Or it would be, if we had a house to put it ...
  6 days ago

• Enjoy Rejects From Other Blogs Here

  
  BuboBlog: a Baby-Daddy's View of San Francisco — Authority: 127
  Remember when I wanted to start a blog devoted to misused division signs ? Well, that hasnt really gotten off the ground yet, due to a lack of material. But I did recently submit an item to the "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks . They passed on the submission, so I decided to use it myself (below). My ...
  6 days ago

• Probably you already heard about it ...

  
  bjkeefe — Authority: 142
  ... but how could I not pass this along? Yes … Xenophon v. Xenu … is Teh Awesome, whether its a court case or a monster movie. __________ [Added] One More And Were Calling It A Trend Department: … TBogg, FTW: Noron vs. the Morans . (The titling thing, I mean, not the subject.)
  1 week ago

• Word Matters

  
  bjkeefe — Authority: 142
  Truly, if you love wordplay, you must read SEKs " Truly, academics lead enviable lives ." And follow all links within, especially the first one and the earthquake one . Also, learn how, commas, are like, Star Trek.
  1 week ago

• The 99 Steps

  
  Froogville — Authority: 432
  My projected date for moving out is now less than a week away, and I am suddenly starting to get a bit sentimental about the old place.  I am getting a bit teary each time I ascend or descend the 99-step staircase.  (I am going to miss this: it is, as I have commented before, an uncommonly nice stairwell .)   ...
  1 week ago

• Wednesday wordplay: Marlene Dietrich’s friends…

  
  Chicago Theater Blog — Authority: 137
  Inspirational Quotes It’s the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter.             — Marlene Dietrich The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over ...
  1 week ago

• Dude and Dude: Like Un Friends

  
  O'Ceallaigh & The Quill — Authority: 127
  “Like wow , dude. I wonder what the prize was.” “Prize for what , dude?” “For winning the New Word of the Year Award , dude!” “They’re giving out awards for new words? Who is?” “The, um, New Oxford American Dictionary, says here.” “Somebody’s sales projections are down, I see. So ...
  1 week ago

• Why vampires dont work (1)

  
  Froogville — Authority: 432
  Pondering the well-regarded Swedish vampire film Let The Right One In for my review  of it a couple of weeks ago, I realised that it exemplified one of the key implausibilities in the vampire mythos.   However, Ill spare that observation for another few days, because it immediately led me to think of ...
  1 week ago

• Bloody Vikings!

  
  Froogville — Authority: 432
  As regular readers (well, regular commenters , anyway) will have noticed, I have started being inundated with spam in the last few weeks.  Indeed, it seems to have been getting exponentially worse over the last few days.   I have therefore been forced to engage the Word Verification widget on the comment ...
  1 week ago

• Translating the Pen, Penning Translations

  
  Aristotle's Feminist Subject — Authority: 494
  “Bob Cargill has penned. . . .” In that broader context, is “pen” a crucial element of the phrase that needs to be translated? The above question is Joel Hoffmans, as hes " Thinking About Translation In Just One Language." Hoffman is asking, "[S]hould the translation be the equivalent of wrote with a pen ...
  1 week ago

• A reminder of why wed all really prefer to be on Linux

  
  Froogville — Authority: 432
  Even if occasionally it all goes horribly wrong ....
  1 week ago

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