eg. “Is that your penile implant?” “Yes, that penile implant belongs to me.”* *not intended as an endorsement for penile implantation
May 14, 2004
May 14, 2004
Words that just sound funny, #9: “penile"*
eg. “Is that your penile implant?” “Yes, that penile implant belongs to me.”* *not intended as an endorsement for penile implantation
May 14, 2004
Friday Filosophizing
This post at Obsidian Wings reminded me of a similar story I came across while studying Civil War-era oral histories (mostly slave narratives) a few years back. One of the more enigmatic figures of the 19th-century American south was “Uncle” Boja Willy (William B. Freeman, 1797?? – 1901) — a freed slave who some New Historicists have argued prefigured, in his ad hoc and peripatetic teachings, many of the semiotic
May 14, 2004
Scenes from my driveway, continued, continued, continued
Deadbeat neighbor: “Wow. That Kerry guy really is an asshole, isn’t he?” Me: “Told you so.” Deadbeat neighbor: “That you did… Anyway, much nicer outside today. I’m thinking maybe I’ll grill tonight.” Me: “Just try not to burn the ribs this time. It drives my dogs crazy.”
May 14, 2004
Goes together like spaghetti and birch beer*
…Oh good lord. Above: Prince Charles and Jay-Z share a laugh over the nature of transatlantic “jiggyness.” *Or “Fish and Crips,” you decide. **** via Karol
May 14, 2004
Sentences I wish I’d Written / Uttered, 2
1. “Air America’s Randi Rhodes’ calling for President Bush to be shot: If you make a death threat on a radio network no one listens to, does it make a sound?” — Glenn Reynolds, from “Things I’m not writing about, but that people keep asking about,” Instapundit.com 2. “You breath smells of ambrosia, nectar of the Gods…” — some guy at a hotel bar in Reno, NV, in a rather
May 14, 2004
Sentences I wish I’d Written / Uttered, 2
1. “Air America’s Randi Rhodes’ calling for President Bush to be shot: If you make a death threat on a radio network no one listens to, does it make a sound?” — Glenn Reynolds, from “Things I’m not writing about, but that people keep asking about,” Instapundit.com 2. “You breath smells of ambrosia, nectar of the Gods…” — some guy at a hotel bar in Reno, NV, in a rather
May 14, 2004
Top 10 Lynndie England Excuses and/or Dinosaurs
10. Pachycephalosaurus 9. “I thought those were corn dogs. And I love corn dogs.” 8. “Wait, you said ‘secure and detain’? Because it sounded like you said ‘put together a circle jerk, film it, then burn it onto a DVD.’” 7. Carcharodontosaurus 6. “Oh, I see: it’s okay to liberate Iraqis, but try liberating a few American nipples and all of sudden you’ve committed a crime…?” 5. “I thought those were salamis. And I love salamis.”