Three portmanteau items from recent e-mail and web explorations: from meteorology, from a site featuring X-rated male photography, and in a Rhymes With Orange cartoon.
Archive for February, 2011
A portmanteau crop
February 4, 2011More underwear links
February 3, 2011Additions to the inventory of my underwear postings in “Underwear gods” of 10/19/10:
AZBlogX 11/8/10: The Gaze Downward (link). On 10percent models and Marco Rossi.
AZBlogX 11/9/10: Lives of the pornstars (link). Aden Jaric modeling underwear.
AZBlog 12/7/10: Underwear gifting (link). Underwear from FrankDandy.
AZBlog 12/8/10: More trendy underwear (link). From MensFit.
AZBlog 12/15/10: The Xmas package (link). Undergear ad. With a pun on package, plus a remarkable jockstrap and a note on hardware.
AZBlog 12/17/10: The Xmas package 2 (link). No underwear at all in this ad. Plus a remarkable thong and a note on pouch-enhancing.
AZBlog 12/19/10: The Xmas package 3 (link). With another remarkable jockstrap.
AZBlog 12/21/10: The Xmas package 4 (link). Lots of hi-def from Undergear.
AZBlog 12/23/10: The Xmas package 5 (link). With a play on junk.
AZBlog 12/24/10: The men’s underwear book (link). Cultural history in The Story of Men’s Underwear.
AZBlog 12/25/10: More ridiculous underwear with zipper pulls (link). The Gregg Homme Forbidden Jockbrief.
AZBlog 12/29/10: Remarkable underwear (link). Two pieces of underwear humor.
AZBlogX 1/2/11: Phallicity: Reese Rideout (link). The pornstar in an extraordinarily phallic jockstrap (and out of it).
AZBlogX 1/9/11: Showoff (link). Back to hi-def from Undergear.
AZBlogX 1/21/11: Valentine gift (link). A high-def Undergear Valentine.
Nonverbal communication
February 3, 2011A Zippy on nonverbal communication in Dingburg:
You probably didn’t know that nonverbal communication could be so specific.
No word for X
February 2, 2011From the “Feedback” column of the NewScientist of January 22:
At the end of last year, Alastair Beaven asked if readers had examples of people using words in a novel sense without knowing their original meaning – and he wondered if this phenomenon has a name (25 December). He gave the example of an interpreter in Afghanistan who knew about viruses in computers, but not about biological viruses.
Resumptive pronoun, or something
February 1, 2011From Bruce Webster in e-mail a few days ago, a pointer to an NFL.com story of January 27 about Jeff Fisher leaving as coach of the Tennessee Titans (“Split is best move for both Fisher and Titans” by Michael Lombardi). The final sentence in this passage is the one of interest; the problematic subordinate clause is bold-faced, but the larger context is important:
When defensive line coach Jim Washburn walked out the door and headed to Philadelphia, so did a piece of Fisher. Fisher believes the game is won up front — in both the offensive and defensive lines. He took great pride in being strong in both areas, with his players and coaches. Once he lost Washburn, whom Titans management allowed his contract to expire, Fisher lost any chance of having the kind of team he envisioned.