Today’s Mother Goose and Grimm:
A Rhymes With Orange on Yoda’s syntax, complete with links to Language Log postings on the subject, was posted here. Another Rhymes, on the young Yoda, is here.
Archive for 2013
Yoda again
July 25, 2013Being someone else
July 25, 2013
Brief mention: “You onion-peel so slowly”
July 24, 2013Said by character Dani Santino to character Nico Careles in the episode “V3 for Vendetta” (7/17/13) of the cable tv series Necessary Roughness. Taking the two-part back-formation to onion-peel into new, figurative, territory.
The fourth wall
July 24, 2013Passed on by Emily Menon Bender, the Non Sequitur strip of 7/21/13:
The apologies are to Mark Tatulli, the creator of Liō (that’s Liō on the left, on the other side of the wall) and Stephan Pastis, the creator of Pearls Before Swine (that’s cartoon Pastis and the Pearls characters Rat and Pig on the right). Meanwhile, inside the wall we have Danae and her pet Clydesdale Lucy.
Asterixions
July 24, 2013On AZBlogX, a set of 19 Asterixions: Asterix stickers on captioned male photography (with snarky, silly, sexy, or poignant captions added by me) — 12 photos by Howard Roffman, 4 by Benno Thoma, 3 by Michael Reh. This posting continues the series of five sets of cattions (with B. Kliban cat stickers).
A few of the images show full-frontal nudity, but most do not. There’s some linguistic interest in the representation of sounds in Asterix (in French and English).
(Thanks to Max Vasilatos for the photograph postcards and to Elizabeth Daingerfield Zwicky for the stickers.)
SRS: the music video
July 23, 2013Now out on YouTube, the Steam Room Stories music video:
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Let’s go relax
In the steam room,
Get back and hang with all the bros
Full of dude, bro, etc., plus towel play and four-part harmony.
Pied-Piping Day
July 23, 2013… was yesterday. From John Lawler on Facebook, this comment about the Pied Piper of Hamelin and an illustration, originally from Richard Galgano:
July 22 is Ratcatcher’s Day (celebrated on June 26 in Hamelin, Germany)
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Odds and ends: portmanteaus to penises
July 22, 2013An accumulation of miscellanea: portmanteaus, porn flick and pornstar names, (in the continuing Remarkable Underwear series) black lace skivvies, and (in the continuing News for Penises series), the smallest penis in Brooklyn.
More Magritte
July 21, 2013(About art rather than language.)
Today’s Zippy:
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Zippy comes back to Magritte every so often. Surrealists stick together.
take it as a given
July 21, 2013In today’s Pearls Before Swine, Pig misunderstands yet another English expression:
Ok, it’s take it as a given ‘assume that it is true’, a partly transparent idiom. Which Pig apparently hadn’t heard before, so he understands the noun given, eggcornishly, as gibbon. Swing on, Pig.
(Yes, tremendously silly. But I am entertained.)