Every so often, Zippy and Zerbina get into a groove of repeating phrases. This time it’s Zerbina, stuck on the remarkable phrase “post-prandial sneeze disorder”:
Every so often, Zippy and Zerbina get into a groove of repeating phrases. This time it’s Zerbina, stuck on the remarkable phrase “post-prandial sneeze disorder”:
September 30, 2009 at 9:34 pm |
The meaning of the phrase is not remarkable. Lots of things can make people sneeze. A full stomach is only one of them. Some links:
http://scienceblogs.com/effectmeasure/2008/12/sneezing_and_sex.php
http://www.rsm.ac.uk/media/downloads/JRSMSneezing.pdf
March 3, 2010 at 8:59 am |
[…] Mantra of the moment By arnoldzwicky Zippy and his acquaintances are given to picking up and chanting “found mantras”, expressions that they find satisfying to repeat — in episodes of what Bill Griffith calls onomatomania (or phrase repetition disorder, here): […]