Archive for January, 2012

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Late entries in the gay Santa sweepstakes

January 1, 2012

(Not about language. Late for Christmas, and decidedly risqué.)

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The many faces of male friendship

January 1, 2012

From the someecard folks, three takes on male friendship.
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My Favorite Things

January 1, 2012

Today’s Zippy, with a riff on “My Favorite Things”:

That’s the show tune from the 1959 Rogers and Hammerstein musical The Sound of Music. Great music (wonderfully transformed in John Coltrane’s soprano saxophone version of 1961), supremely annoying lyrics.

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