Snowclone postings
*Snowclone postings (on Language Log and AZBlog)
snowclonelet composites (aka snowclonelets) have their own Page, here:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/linguistics-notes/snowclonelets/]
for some years, Erin Stevenson O’Connor maintained the Snowclone Database site ([https://snowclones.org]); in the list below, entries on this site are noted as: “scdb” + date
a number of the entries concern playful allusions of various kinds, rather than clear snowclones
GP, 10/21/03: Bleached conditionals:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000049.html]
If Eskimos have N words for snow, X have M words for Z [LLog #49]
[Eskimo N] (scdb 5/31/07)
GP, 10/27/03: Phrases for lazy writers in kit form:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000061.html]
In space, no one can hear you V. [V a verb] (scdb 7/5/07)
ML, 12/2/03: Clear thinking campaign gives “fogged spectacles a bad name:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000178.html]
You (don’t) need a degree in X to do Y.
ML, 1/14/04: Frozen precipitation in the networking infrastructure:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000336.html]
Eskimo N
GP, 1/16/04: Snowclones: lexicographic dating to the second:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000350.html]
X is the new Y. [The New Y] (scdb 7/1/07)
GP, 1/18/04: Another snowclone:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000362.html]
An Xer shade of Y.
GP, 1/25/04: When did you first hear this pattern?:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000383.html]
Put the X in Y.
ML, 1/28/04: Snowclones are the dark matter of journalism:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000396.html]
X is the dark matter of Y. [Dark Matter] (scdb 12/18/07)
ML, 1/29/04: “I, for one, welcome our new * overlords”:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000399.html]
I, for one, welcome our new X overlords. [Our New Overlords] (scdb 5/22/07)
ML, 1/29/04: In Soviet Russia, snowclones overuse you:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000402.html]
In X1 you V Y; in X2 Y Vs you. [X1 and X2 placenames] (scdb 5/22/07)
ML, 1/30/04: The memetic phylogeny of “our new * overlords”:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000403.html]
[variants of:] Our New Overlords
ML, 2/6/04: “Snowclone” as a chart R&B song:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000426.html]
[about the term snowclone]
ML, 2/21/04: Who is to be master?
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000477.html]
No X is too Y to avoid Z. [and variants]
ML, 3/3/04: Expression’s vast varieties:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000530.html]
Eskimo N
ML, 3/4/04: The Eskimos, Arabs, Somalis, Carrier .. and English:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000540.html]
Eskimo N
ML. 3/18/04: The backpack of it all:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000604.html]
The X of it all. [The X of It All]
ML, 3/19/04: Putting the X in Y:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000605.html]
We put the X in(to) Y. [Put the X in Y]
ML, 3/24/04: Cuteness:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000634.html]
Crunchy X goodness. [Crunchy Goodness]
ML, 3/27/04: X are from Mars, Y are from Venus:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000644.html]
X are from Mars, Y are from Venus. [Mars, Venus]
ML, 4/7/04: X nazi:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000722.html]
X Nazi [snowclonelet]
ML, 4/25/04: Have X, will travel:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000818.html]
Have X will travel. (scdb 7/20/07)
ML, 7/3/04: Not the * I know: Let * be *:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001156.html]
Not the X I know.
Let X be X.
ML, 10/21/04: Snowclone sightings:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001580.html]
Xs don’t V people.
Will the real X please stand up?
AZ, 11/27/04: Twos and threes:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001673.html]
X3.
ML, 12/14/04: Religious syntax:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001718.html]
X is a verb [Is a Verb]
(labeled as a snowclone here:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003520.html] )
ML, 1/7/05: Homeric objects of desire:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001787.html]
Mmm… X. [Simpson’s Mmm]
ML, 1/25/05: * me P and call me *:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001838.html]
V me P and call me X. [V Me P And]
ML, 2/27/05: Smart kids:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001932.html]
Every schoolboy knows X. [Every Schoolboy]
ML, 3/27/05: Liberalism is the new communism:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002010.html]
The New Y [for Y = communism]
AZ, 5/17/05: Once a snowclone, always a snowclone:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002167.html]
Once a X, always a X. [Once, Always]
ML, 5/17/05: Antique snowclones:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002170.html]
Once, Always
AZ, 5/18/05: The hounds of ADS-L:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002174.html]
Once, Always
AZ, 5/21/05: An avalanchlet of snowclones:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002185.html]
The X that is Y.
One man’s X is another man’s Y. [One Man’s X]
Color me X. [Color Me]
[comments on:]
Once, Always
The New Y
[vs. cliches with open slots, like:]
The wonderful world of X.
ML, 6/2/05: X-ing outside the Y:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002220.html]
X-ing outside the Y. [Outside the Box]
EB, 6/2/05: That’s why they call it X:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002221.html]
That’s why they call it X.
ML, 6/3/05: Polysemy in action:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002223.html]
That why they call it X.
AZ, 7/3/05: What is this ‘snowclone’ of which you speak?:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002285.html]
What is this X of which you speak?
AZ, 7/4/05: Documenting snowclones, dating them:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002289.html]
[origin and spread of snowclones]
What is this X of which you speak?
ML, 7/14/05: A few players short of a side:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002324.html]
A few Xs short/shy of a Y. [A Few Short] (scdb 10/3/07)
ML, 8/2/05: Illustrations:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002374.html]
[cartoon of] What is this X of which you speak?
EB, 8/23/05: You can call it X all you want:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002416.html]
That’s why they call it X.
ML, 8/31/06: New Orleans is essentially an arm of the Gulf of Mexico:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002439.html]
X is essentially Y. [dubious as snowclone]
AZ, 9/06/05: Call me… unpronounceable:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002461.html]
I [shape] X (treated as a snowclone on scdb)
ML, 9/13/05: Two, three… many prefabricated phrases:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002470.html]
Two, three, many Xs.
ML, 9/26/05: Wikipedia on Simpsons words:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002494.html]
I, for one, welcome our new X overlords.
Mmm, X.
AZ, 10/12/05: What is this Harvard?:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002535.html]
What is this X of which you speak?
AZ, 10/12/05: Playing one:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002537.html]
Play One, esp.
– I’m not X, but/though I play one on TV.
– I’m not X, I just play one on TV. (scdb 8/17/07)
AZ, 10/12/05: To snowclone or not to snowclone:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002538.html]
To X or not to X. (scdb 8/31/07)
AZ, 10/13/05: Playing one 2:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002541.html]
Play One.
AZ, 10/16/05: Playing one 3:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002550.html
Play One.
AZ, 10/18/05: Critical tone for a new snowclone:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002555.html
[playful allusions vs. snowclones proper]
Eye Guy.
AZ, 10/19/05: My big fat Greek snowclone:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002557.html
[playful allusions vs. snowclones proper]
Eye Guy. Shocked Shocked. Holy Batman. vs.
Play One. Big Fat.
AZ, 10/28/05: Is splanchnic just another word for schmuck?:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002600.html]
Eskimo N
EB, 11/14/05: Snowclone shortening:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002646.html]
X eats, drinks, and sleeps Y. [Eat Drink Sleep]
BZ, 11/15/05: Eating, drinking, sleeping snowclones:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002647.html]
Eat Drink Sleep [and variants]
BZ, 11/16/05: Eating, drinking, sleeping snowclones, part 2: The early years:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002651.html]
Eat Drink Sleep
BZ, 12/5/05: Snowclones hit the big time:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002691.html]
[from Danyel Fisher, http://drzaius.ics.uci.edu/blogs/danyelf/archives/000057.html%5D
X, the hidden epidemic.
X, the second-oldest profession.
X considered harmful.
ML, 2/4/06: The proper treatment of snowclones in ordinary English:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002806.html]
(discussion of playful allusions vs. snowclones proper; reference to Wikipedia:
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_snowclones] )
The proper treatment of X in Y.
AZ, 2/20/06: Not your mother’s snowclone:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002856.html]
Not your R’s X. [R a kin term]
BZ, 2/25/06: No snowclone left behind:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002877.html]
No X left behind.
We are all X now.
ML, 3/1/06: Crazy talk:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002889.html]
X is crazy talk.
BZ, 3/2/06: Tracking snowclones is hard. Let’s go shopping:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002892.html]
X is hard. Let’s go shopping! [Hard Shopping] (scdb 2/19/08)
also: BZ, 3/11/06: A pirated Barbie-ism:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002919.html]
[snowclone database 2/19/08]
ML, 3/3/06: The entire United States wept:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002895.html]
[links to collections of snowclones]
ML, 3/5/06: Noclone:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002898.html]
An X is someone who knows the Y of everything and the Z of nothing.
ML, 3/7/06: The agenbite of Onion wit:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002903.html]
[semi-snowclones]
ML, 3/7/06: Brokeback generalizations:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002904.html]
Brokeback X
ML, 3/9/06: Respect:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002910.html]
[BZ comment on] Best. X. Ever.
AZ, 3/9/06: More brokeback generalizations:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002913.html]
Brokeback X [arguing that this is just allusion and semantic extension]
ML, 3/10/06: Best. Snowclone. Evar:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002914.html]
Best X Evar.
BZ, 3/11/06: A pirated Barbie-ism:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002919.html]
Hard Shopping
ML, 3/13/06: X-back Mountain:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002922.html]
X-back Mountain.
AZ, 3/13/06: Snowclone Mountain?:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002924.html]
X-back Mountain. [arguing it’s just playful allusion]
ML, 3/17/06: It’s not hard out here for a cliche:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002936.html]
It’s hard out (t)here for a X. [Hard Out]
ML, 3/19/06: Not nearly hard enough:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002945.html]
[cartoon on] It’s hard out here for a X. [Hard Out]
EB, 3/21/06: How’s this for ambiguity?:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002946.html]
[variant of] It’s X’s world, we just live in it.
ML, 3/21/06: It’s X’s world, we just live in it:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002947.html]
It’s X’s world, we just live in it. [X a personal name] [X’s World]
AZ, 3/23/06: I found my snowclone in Palo Alto:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002953.html]
I left my X in San Francisco. [and other variants]
ML, 4/11/06: X is a Y best served Z:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003007.html]
AZ, 4/18/06: All that and talk about Fight Club:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003037.html]
The first rule of X is that you do not/don’t talk about X. [First Rule]
(scdb 1/4/11)
Be all that and a X. [Be All That And]
ML, 6/6/06: Springtime for snowclones:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003229.html]
It’s springtime for X, and…
GP, 7/9/06: Snowclones of linguification:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003336.html]
Can’t even spell/pronounce W.
Not know the meaning of W.
W isn’t in X’s dictionary/vocabulary.
W is not in L.
W is X’s middle name.
W and V are (not) found in the same U.
Look up W in the dictionary and you’ll find a picture of X.
Hate the word W.
Not know the name of X.
Hear the word W and reach for one’s N.
ML, 7/28/06: X as the Y of Z:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003394.html]
X as the Y of Z. (scdb 12/18/07, 12/30/08)
AZ, 8/4/06: Who died and made you the king of snowclones?:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003416.html]
Who died and made you X? [Who Died?]
ML, 8/8/06: Out-X-ing X:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003430.html]
GP, 8/29/06: Science is… a verb??:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003520.html]
X is a verb [Is a Verb]
ML, 9/17/06: David Brooks, neuroendocrinologist:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003586.html]
X Is Destiny
AZ, 11/11/06: Fully awesome!:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003764.html]
The New Y
AZ, 11/11/06: Unblogged snowclones:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003765.html]
[21 previously unblogged snowclones (or whatever), plus The New Y]
Now if you will excuse me I have a X to Y
I’m from X and I’m here to help (you)
not the Xest Y in the Z (scdb 10/3/07)
Don’t X me because I’m Y
X-y McXerson
Hardly/Not a X goes by without Y
We don’t need no stinking/stinkin’/steenkin’ Xs (scdb 7/27/07)
If that’s X, every Y should be so lucky
Yes, Virginia, [mildly improbable statement is true] (scdb 10/12/07)
X does not a Y make
X-lorn
X gone wild
Take X and shove/stick it
There’s a lot we don’t know about X
As a X, N is a great Y
Busier than a X [someplace]
That’s not a X; this is a X (scdb 9/18/07)
N is the M of X
There’s no rest for the X
Whatever Vs your X (scdb 12/10/07)
X me no Ys (scdb 9/18/07)
ML, 11/12/06: Be a famous footnote:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003767.html]
Our New Overlords
ML, 11/12/06: Prancing about with Jack McConnells pants on your head does not a news story make:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003768.html]
X does not a Y make [Does Not A]
ML, 11/19/06: Fomite: panacea or backformation?:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003790.html]
X: panacea or Y?
ML, 11/21/06: Snowclones in the New Scientist:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003801.html]
Mother of all Xs [Mother of All]
HH, 12/3/06: Art, arts, arting, arted:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003856.html]
Is a Verb
AZ, 12/21/06: Bad lingo:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003948.html]
Best. X. Ever., X-y Goodness, Makes My Y Bleed, X-gasm, The New Y
AZ, 12/28/06: A little more of The New Y:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003977.html]
The New Y
BZ, 12/28/06: On the trail of “the new black” (and “the navy blue”):
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003981.html]
The New Y
AZ, 1/18/07: A full year of The New Y:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004059.html]
The New Y
AZ, 1/20/07: Zippy on formulaic language:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004070.html]
X3, Proportional Analogy (X is to Y as Z is to W), Are we X yet?
ML, 1/21/07: Doing meta: from meta-language to meta-clippy:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004073.html]
Anything You Can Do
ML, 1/22/07: X ist das neues Y:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004080.html]
The New Y
ML, 3/20/07: Snowclones for Jesus:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004322.html]
X for Jesus
ML, 4/6/07: All X and no Y:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004375.html]
All X and No Y
AZ, 4/16/07: X’s X:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004411.html]
X’s X
BZ, 4/18/07: Poignant snowclone of the week:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004420.html]
We Are All X Now
HH, 6/25/07: Cheeseclones!:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004644.html]
Eskimo N [French names for cheese]
ML, 6/27/07: Snowclone of the day:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004654.html]
variant of Eskimo N
ML, 7/3/07: Considered harmful:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004675.html]
Considered harmful
AZ, 7/14/07: Negative is the new positive: [http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/chives/004717.html]
Are we X yet?, The New Y
ML, 7/24/07: Men are from …:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004744.html]
Men are from X, women are from Y
ML, 8/10/07: I am X, hear me Y:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004811.html]
I Am X Hear Me Y (scdb 8/10/07)
AZ, 8/11/07: Yet another snowclone omnibus:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004818.html]
27 snowclones since the last omnibus, including some from LLog postings (above), plus a cartoon on The New Y:
It’s X, Jim, but not as we know it.
X is to Y what Z is to Q [Proportional Analogy, #4070]
X is to Y what Z is to Y
I’m in ur Noun V-ing your Noun (scdb 10/19/07)
Save a X, ride a Y (scdb 7/13/07)
Sufficient unto the X is the Y thereof
You can’t X your Y and Z it too
Pimp my X
Stupid X tricks
If X are outlawed, only outlaws will have X [Outlaw]
A watched X never Ys
The once and future X
Nothing says X like Y
X: panacea or Y? [#3790]
Men are from X, women are from Y [#4744]
Are we X yet? [#4717, #4070]
The X from hell
X City
As X falls, so falls X Falls
X for Jesus [#4322]
X’s X [#4411]
Step away from the X
various lolcat snowclones [#4442, 4485, 4500, 4507, 4508]
various Mc- formulas
X considered harmful [#4675]
I am X, hear me Y [#4811]
He may be a X but he’s our X
ML, 8/25/07: “X and its enemies”:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004851.html]
X and its enemies, X and its discontents
BZ. 9/17/07: Snowclone collectors, call your offices:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004921.html]
X, call your office
ML, 9/22/07: Ask Language Log: On a scale from one to snowclone:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004944.html]
On a scale from one to X
AZ, 9/23/07: On the fringes of snowclonia: [http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004949.html]
X, call your office
[playful allusions: Unsafe P any X. A child’s garden of Xs. and others]
On a scale from one to X
From X’s lips/mouth to God’s ear [God’s Ear]
Who are you and what have you done with X? [Body Snatcher]
ML, 10/27/07: That didn’t take long:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005066.html]
riffs on: I Am America (And So Can You!)
GP, 10/31/07: And so can you (be):
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005075.html]
riffs on: I Am America (And So Can You!)
AZ, 10/31/07: I am neither America nor a snowclone:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005078.html]
reply to previous two postings
AZ, 11/3/07: More Colbert:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005084.html]
further explanation
AZ, 12/16/07: What have you done with God’s ear?:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005226.html]
Body Snatcher, God’s Ear
AZ, 12/17/07: It’s not just to God’s ear(s):
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005232.html]
God’s Ear
AZ, 3/13/08: Zippy snow(clone):
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005454.html]
Outlaw
ML, 3/25/08: X as the Y of Z, again:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005495.html]
X as the Y of Z
AZ, 5/30/08: Zits roundup:
[http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=201]
God’s Ear
ML, 6/9/08: Snowclone watch:
[http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=227]
Happens In, Stays In
[see http://www.joshmillard.com/2008/06/10/what-happens-in-metafilter/ ]
AZ, 6/24/08: Are we snowcloning yet?:
[http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=273]
Are We X Yet?
AZ, 9/26/08: Cartoon linguification:
[http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=637]
“not know the meaning of X”
AZ, 10/19/08: Giveth and taketh:
[http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=736]
GivethTaketh
ML, 11/5/08: Obama is the Y of Z:
[http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=806]
X as the Y of Z
AZ, 12/11/08: Gay day (and virgins):
[http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=902]
Day Without X, call in X, stage an X-out, [snowclonelet] X virgin
AZ, 12/14/08: More virgins:
[http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=910]
X virgin
BZ, 12/20/08: The Rosa Parks of blogs:
[http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=938]
X is the Y of Z
BZ, 1/13/09: Consider the X:
[http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1016]
Consider the X (scdb 1/16/11)
ML, 1/28/09: ‘No word for X’ archive:
[http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1081]
inventory of postings on the No Word for X meme
ML, 2/16/09: Progress and its enemies:
[http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1154]
X and Its Ys [variations on Civilization and Its Discontents, etc.]
ML, 2/24/09: Snowclone of the day:
[http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1174]
X-ready [just playful allusion?]
3/29/09: Snowclonelet composites:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2009/03/29/snowclonelet-composites/]
X fag, X porn, X queen, X rage, X virgin, X whore
[more in comments: X hag, X fairy]
AZ, 4/4/09: All the Y of a Z:
[http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1294]
X requires all the Y of a Z
BZ, 4/4/09: X is the Y of Z: pop music edition:
[http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1295]
X as the Y of Z
4/10/09: The whole X:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2009/04/10/the-whole-x/]
The Whole X
AZ, 4/11/09: Snowclidioms?:
[http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1315]
The Whole X
4/12/09: Fold like a cheap X:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2009/04/12/fold-like-a-cheap-x/]
Fold Like a Cheap X
4/20/09: Yet?:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2009/04/20/yet/]
Are We X Yet?
BZ, 6/30/09: Doing stupid:
[http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1549]
[in comment from BZ] I don’t do X [X noun or adjective]
7/25/09: Jokes and snowclones:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2009/07/25/jokes-and-snowclones/]
possible snowclonish joke templates
7/29/09: Inventory of snowclone postings:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2009/07/29/inventory-of-snowclone-postings/]
inventory through 7/28
ML, 7/29/09: Pop-Whorfianism in the comics again:
[http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1609]
Eskimo N in the comics
ML, 7/30/09: 100 words for the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis:
[http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1612]
Eskimo N in the comics
9/19/09: Someday a bill will pass:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2009/09/19/someday-a-bill-will-pass/]
[playful allusion]
9/20/09: Engines that couldn’t:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2009/09/20/engines-that-couldnt/]
[playful allusion]
ML, 9/21/09: Garden-path lede sentence of the day:
[http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1755]
[with comments]
That’s not an X; this is an X. (LLC #3765; scdb 12/10/07)
BZ, 11/9/09: The Cadillac of snowclones:
[http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1877]
X as the Y of Z
11/18/09: Cultural references:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2009/11/18/cultural-references/]
mau-mauing the N Vers [playful allusion]
BZ, 12/29/09: Leading the league in snowclones:
[http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2003]
leads the league in X
12/30/09: Lolcats in the snow:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2009/12/30/lolcats-in-the-snow/]
Eskimo Snow
1/26/10: What’s P Your N:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2010/01/26/whats-p-your-n/]
what’s P YOUR N?
GP, 2/2/10: Snowclonegate:
[http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2094]
-gate
AZBlog, 3/2/10: Gimme shelter:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2010/03/02/gimme-shelter/]
X porn snowclonelet
BZ, 4/2/10: 40 words for “next”:
[http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2230]
Eskimo Snow
5/1/10: DEFINE “SCRIMMAGE T-SHIRT”
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2010/05/01/define-scrimmage-t-shirt]
Define X
7/25/10: Bear music:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2010/07/25/bear-music/]
Bear-Eating
ML, 10/30/10: The new black is back:
[http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2744]
The New Y
6/8/11: Parasites and the body politic:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2011/06/08/parasites-and-the-body-politic/]
Parasite/Body Politic
6/10/11: Bodies politic:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2011/06/10/bodies-politic/]
Parasite/Body Politic (and X3 and Bear-Eating)
8/2/11: Portmanteau cleverness plus drama kings:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2011/08/02/portmanteau-cleverness-plus-drama-kings/]
drama queen/king
Nancy Friedman’s Fritinancy blog, 12/29/10: Snowclones happen:
[http://nancyfriedman.typepad.com/away_with_words/2010/12/snowclones-happen.html]
X is so Y, every time an X Ys, a Z Ns, X happens
AZ, 7/11/11: X happens:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2011/07/11/x-happens/]
X happens
AZ, 8/5/11: More X happens:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2011/08/05/more-x-happens/]
X happens
ML, 10/2/11: Putting the X in AXB:
[http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3465]
BZ, 10/2/11: Who put the X in AXB: Snowclone follies of 1912:
[http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3466]
put the X in Y
ML, 10/9/11: Altar Ego:
[http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3488]
GP, 12/12/11: Eskimos again, this time seeing the invisible:
[http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3627]
Eskimo N
GP, 12/21/11: Octoporn:
[http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3648]
12/21/11: Eskimo N in Texas politics:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2011/12/21/eskimo-n-in-texas-politics/]
Eskimo N
12/22/11: Dinosaur snowclone:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2011/12/22/dinosaur-snowclone/]
Eskimo N
5/6/12: The All Are Belong snowclone:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2012/05/06/the-all-are-belong-snowclone/]
All Are Belong (scdb 1/10/11)
ML, 6/15/12: “The last acceptable form of ”:
[http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4023]
Last Acceptable
6/18/12: Dammit, Jim:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2012/06/18/dammit-jim/]
6/21/12: The New Y for Zippy:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2012/06/21/the-new-y-for-zippy/]
The New Y
7/3/12: What part of X don’t you understand?:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2012/07/03/what-part-of-x-dont-you-understand/]
What Part of X?
7/24/12: Outlaws with puns:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2012/07/24/outlaws-with-puns/]
Outlaw
BZ, 11/8/12: “We are all the other now”:
[http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4310]
We Are All X Now
ML, 1/11/13: Overestimating, underestimating, whatever:
[http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4407]
Not Going Broke [playful allusion?]
4/4/13: Taco sauce:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2013/04/04/taco-sauce/]
Let the X Commence
4/18/15: Artificial elephants and X Must Die! movies:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/04/18/artificial-elephants-and-x-must-die-movies/]
X Must Die [as a movie title]
8/25/15: Going better with:
[Nothing Goes Better with X than Y – weakly conventionalized]
Nothing Says X like Y
8/26/15: Nothing says A like B:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/08/26/nothing-says-a-like-b-2/]
Nothing Says X like Y – snowclone-like
3/22/17: The news for beavers:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/03/22/the-news-for-beavers/]
Real Men
Save X, VP(BSE)
1/2/18: Between Parody and Pastiche:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/01/02/between-parody-and-pastiche/]
possibly a snowclonic figure Where Xs Go To Die (where Xs = elephants, dreams, stars, ships, birds, pigeons, good girls, the dead, …)
5/3/18: Eskimo N in Britain:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/05/03/eskimo-n-in-britain/]
Eskimo N
5/14/18: Fenwick the semi-generic:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/05/14/fenwick-the-semi-generic/]
The phrase “Eat at Joe’s” is a complementary fictional or hypothetical typical advertisement for such an establishment, and has itself become a snowclone in the form of X at Joe’s, Eat at Y’s, or simply X at Y’s.
6/3/18: What happened in vagueness?:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/06/03/what-happened-in-vagueness/]
Happens In, Stays In (link to ML 6/9/08)
7/21/18: Swiss America:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/07/21/swiss-america/]
The Switzerland of America, an instance of the larger analogical snowclone pattern X is the Y of Z
8/8/18: The elephant in therapy:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/08/08/the-elephant-in-therapy/]
Put the X in AXB (links to GP 1/25/04, ML 3/19/04, ML 10/2/11)
11/29/18: Swiss Tasmania:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/11/29/swiss-tasmania/]
The Switzerland of Tasmania; The X of Y
12/27/18: The family of Word Inclusion snowclones:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/12/27/the-family-of-word-inclusion-snowclones/]
Keep X In AXB, Put X (Back) In(to) AXB, Take X Out of AXB
12/28/18: Yet another Switzerland:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/12/28/yet-another-switzerland/]
Lake Sevan, the Switzerland of Armenia
2/1/19: The natural history of snowclones:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/02/01/the-natural-history-of-snowclones/]
Stanford SemFest 20 abstract
2/5/19: The thread drifted in my direction:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/02/05/the-thread-drifted-in-my-direction/]
X’s X (a politician’s politician, a linguist’s linguist)
2/13/19: Allusions to titles past:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/02/13/allusions-to-titles-past/]
playful variations on, allusions to, formulaic expressions
2/19/19: Wading with Vladimir and Estragon:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/02/19/wading-with-vladimir-and-estragon/]
playful variations on the title Waiting for Godot
3/12/19: The SemFest 20 handout:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/03/12/the-semfest-20-handout/]
“The natural history of snowclones” handout, with many examples
3/16/19: le naufrage, le naufragé:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/03/16/le-naufrage-le-naufrage/]
X is the Y of Z
3/17/19: V me, I’m Irish:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/03/17/v-me-im-irish/]
playful variations on Kiss me, I’m Irish
4/4/19: Ed (the) Ped:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/04/04/ed-the-ped/]
X Are Everywhere
4/13/19: Easter egg quotations:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/04/13/easter-egg-quotations/]
3X BE snowclone; playful variations; snowcloning
4/20/19: Will the real Zippy please stand up?:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/04/20/will-the-real-zippy-please-stand-up/]
Will the real X please stand up?: playful variations on the identity formula; persona snowclone Real X
5/18/19: Ostentatiously playful allusions:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/05/18/ostentatiously-playful-allusions/]
OPAs and Easter egg quotations; 3 OPAs in an issue of the Economist: Nock, Nock; Sunset brouhaha; Do tapirs defecate in the woods?
5/22/19: What a piece of work is Miss Lucille:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/05/22/what-a-piece-of-work-is-miss-lucille/]
X is the Y of Z: “Mr McGregor’s quite the Darth Vader of children’s literature”
6/9/19: Lemon is the vanilla of Italian ices:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/06/09/lemon-is-the-vanilla-of-italian-ices/]
another X is the Y of Z
6/12/19: Follow-up: things that make the world go ’round:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/06/12/follow-up-things-that-make-the-world-go-round/]
X Makes the World
6/17/19: Trix is for kids:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/06/17/trix-is-for-kids/]
playful allusions
1/3/20: The penguinocalypse:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2020/01/03/the-penguinocalypse/]
snowclones vs. specific viral expressions
5/24/20: Zippy for President:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2020/05/24/zippy-for-president/]
survey of Zippyclone postings
8/16/21: Zippy exits, pursued by a board:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2021/08/16/zippy-exits-pursued-by-a-board/]
the Snowclone of Foolishness {small quantity of essential items} short / shy of a {desirable collection})