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Colorful talk 27 Aug 2013 | 06:58 pm
From Eric Holeman on Facebook, this comment on the demolition of the Purple Hotel in Lincolnwood IL: This is sad. Back when it was the Hyatt and I was flying back from an Alaska visit, my O’Hare shut...
Dinosaur language acquisition 26 Aug 2013 | 10:31 pm
Today’s Dinosaur Comics: A tribute to babies: they poop and they invent language. How cool is that?
Today’s porn pun 26 Aug 2013 | 09:14 pm
(Yes, a pun, but a lot of (homo)sexual content as well.) In my e-mail this morning, an ad for this gay porn flick: A cheap pun — grease/Greece, allusion to greek (anal) sex, which is prominently fea...
Concealing by language 26 Aug 2013 | 06:44 pm
In the NYT on the 19th, “Learn to Talk in Beggars’ Cant” by Daniel Heller-Roazen, beginning: Rulers have long kept certain powers hidden from their subjects. But this summer’s disclosures concerning...
Pity Patty 25 Aug 2013 | 08:13 pm
Today’s Pearls Before Swine, with a word avalanche: Pearls toilet-talk, which manages to avoid pissy while strongly suggesting it. [Oh yes, and the reference to pity party.]
Breaking up is hard to do 25 Aug 2013 | 07:36 pm
Yesterday’s Pearls Before Swine: Rat is characteristically insulting; never hire Rat for a delicate task. Then there’s the agentive noun breaker upper (or breaker-upper), with double marking: -er on...
pickles 24 Aug 2013 | 10:55 pm
Just posted on “Men and their pickles”, which brings me to (actual) pickles and (figurative, sexual) pickles. It’s well in advance of National Pickle Day (November 14th), but here’s a pile of (cucumb...
Men and their pickles 24 Aug 2013 | 08:48 pm
From a re-run of the Law & Order episode “Shangri-La” (2002), Assistant D.A. Jack McCoy (played by Sam Waterston) to Associate D.A. Serena Southerlyn (played by Elisabeth Röhm): Never get Freudian wi...
puffins 24 Aug 2013 | 07:20 pm
Heard on KQED just moments ago, an NPR piece on puffin restoration on the Maine coast. Puffins have a special place in my household, because they were my man Jacques’s totem animals (as penguins and ...
slashclip 24 Aug 2013 | 02:46 am
My recent postings on slash fiction and imagery, and fan fiction and art, pulled up a series of truncations and clippings, the most notable being manip, a count noun referring to a digital or photo ma...
