Snowclonelets
*postings on snowclonelet composites
snowclonelets have the properties of snowclones, but in a small compass — in word-like units (mostly N + N, but some with more diverse Word + N structures)
I’m inclined to use snowclonelet (composite) to refer to either the pattern or an instance of the pattern
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☛ ML, 4/7/04: X nazi:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000722.html]
☛ ML, 2/10/7: Birth of a Sentence:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004174.html]
X nazi
☛ ML, 10/8/07: Shooting down “amateur grammar nazis”:
[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004997.html]
☛ ML, 6/15/08: Grasshoppers and women on horseback as frogs:
[http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=247]
grammar nazi
☛ AZ, 12/11/08: Gay day (and virgins):
[http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=902]
and ☛ AZ, 12/14/08: More virgins:
[http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=910]
X virgin
☛ 3/29/09: Snowclonelet composites:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2009/03/29/snowclonelet-composites/]
the notion of snowclonet composite
X fag, X porn, X queen, X rage, X virgin, X whore; in comments, X hag, X complex, X fairy
☛ 7/29/09: Inventory of snowclone postings:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2009/07/29/inventory-of-snowclone-postings/]
a few snowclonelets
☛ BZ, 1/13/10: The “Team X” meme:
[http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2043]
Team X; X Nation
☛ 1/22/10: X magnet:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2010/01/22/x-magnet/]
☛ 1/22/10: drag:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2010/01/22/drag/]
X drag
☛ 1/31/10: X Nazi:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2010/01/31/x-nazi/]
☛ GP, 1/31/10: The Health Nazi:
[http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2090]
☛ 3/2/10: Gimme shelter:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2010/03/02/gimme-shelter/]
X porn ex. house porn
☛ 4/4/10: Zippy’s Gagacabulary:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2010/04/04/zippys-gagacabulary/]
Xmania
☛ ML, 5/30/10: Grammar Nazi:
[http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2318]
☛ 6/12/10: The House of X formula:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2010/08/12/the-house-of-x-formula/]
☛ 7/4/10: Fippy the Finhead:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2010/07/04/fippy-the-finhead/]
morphological snowclonelet X-in for an event
☛ 12/21/10: X whore:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2010/12/21/x-whore/]
☛ 3/4/11: X fag:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2011/03/04/x-fag/]
☛ 5/29/11: Sluts:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2011/05/29/sluts/]
X slut
☛ 8/2/11: Portmanteau cleverness plus drama kings:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2011/08/02/portmanteau-cleverness-plus-drama-kings/]
drama king as development from drama queen
☛ 3/6/12: Grammandos and more:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2012/03/05/grammandos-and-more/]
objection to Grammar Nazi
☛ 3/6/12: The twinkmeister:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2012/03/06/the-twinkmeister/]
X-meister
☛ 3/6/12: And on bears…:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2012/03/06/and-on-bears/]
X magnet ex. bear magnet
☛ 4/20/12: Peanuts vs. the grammar nazis:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2012/04/20/peanuts-vs-the-grammar-nazis/]
☛ 4/24/12: doing X:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2012/04/24/doing-x/]
X queen ex. drag queen; parallel ex. drag king
☛ 6/5/12: X porn:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2012/06/05/x-porn/]
☛ 6/9/12: The Grammar Police:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2012/06/09/the-grammar-police/]
X police ex.
☛ 7/29/12: Sunday puns:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2012/07/29/sunday-puns-2/]
Bizarro: X magnet ex. chick magnet
☛ 8/22/12: X rape:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2012/08/22/x-rape/]
☛ 10/25/12: Three headlines:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2012/10/25/three-headlines/]
X porn ex. real-estate porn
☛ 11/29/12: The war on errorism:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2012/11/29/the-war-on-errorism/]
X police ex. grammar police
☛ 3/24/13: Cyanide and Happiness roundup:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2013/03/24/cyanide-and-happiness-roundup/]
#1: X Nazi ex. grammar Nazi
☛ 9/28/13: X job:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2013/09/28/x-job/]
sexual X job (excluding plastic-surgery X job and automotive X job)
☛ 9/30/13: Up Your Alley:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2013/09/30/up-your-alley/]
the snowclonelet X pig, denoting someone who’s seriously into X
☛ 6/5/14: Four for the Fourth:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/06/05/four-for-the-fourth/]
#1: snowclonelet diet Y
☛ 10/18/14: X bar:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/10/18/x-bar/]
4 types of X bar, with bar ‘establishment serving alcohol’
☛ 2/6/15: Another king of nose job:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/02/06/another-kind-of-nose-job/]
nose job in sexual sense
☛ 2/13/15: Name that stuff!:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/02/13/name-that-stuff/]
fairy Y ex. fairy floss
☛ 3/22/15: Lab mix:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/03/22/lab-mix/]
X mix for dog hybrids
☛ 5/22/15: Or what?:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/05/22/or-what/]
X whisperer
☛ 9/23/15: Mark Mason, Matt Bauer, and Gay Porn Minus Gay Sex:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/09/23/mark-mason-matt-bauer-and-gay-porn-minus-gay-sex/]
X pig ex. tit pig
☛ 10/19/15: Rafe on display:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/10/19/rafe-on-display/]
X pig ex. fuck pig
☛ 10/31/15: X snob:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/10/31/x-snob/]
☛ 12/12/15: Sex between straight men: bro-jobs:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/12/12/sex-between-straight-men-bro-jobs/]
X job
☛ 12/19/15: X queen:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/12/19/x-queen/]
including preferences of gay men
☛ 12/20/15: Odds and ends 12/20/15:
more on X queen
☛ 1/20/16: Five from Barsotti:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/01/20/five-from-barsotti/]
#4 shows a dog bar – with some discussion of X bar
☛ 2/25/17: Displaying your nipples:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/02/25/displaying-your-nipples/]
nipple pig, nippig, titpig; other examples of the sexual X pig snowclonelet
☛ 2/26/17: More piggery:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/02/26/more-piggery/]
food-enthusiast snowclone X pig and the bases for it
☛ 3/24/17: The invention of the X job:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/03/24/the-invention-of-the-x-job/]
rub job, hand job, blow job, rim job, fist job
☛ 4/9/17: The trophy boys park the beef bus in tuches town:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/04/09/the-trophy-boys-park-the-beef-bus-in-tuches-town/]
trophy X
☛ 6/5/17: Fairy gardens:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/06/05/fairy-gardens/]
☛ 8/25/17: Unguinal genitaia:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/08/25/unguinal-genitalia/]
X job at a nail salon
☛ 9/19/17: I like pig butts and I cannot lie:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/09/19/i-like-pig-butts-and-i-cannot-lie/]
sexual X pig
☛ 3/30/18: Deviant Passover rites:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/03/30/deviant-passover-rites/]
sexual X chaser
☛ 4/9/18: The gay world of Yvon Goulet:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/04/09/the-gay-world-of-yvon-goulet/]
X queen, spec. t-room queen
☛ 5/8/18: mailman lady:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/05/08/mailman-lady/]
three X lady snowclonelets
☛ 12/8/18: News for bears: cities of bears:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/12/08/news-for-bears-cities-of-bears/]
X city snowclonelets
☛ 12/22/18: Festoonists:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/12/22/festoonists/]
fairy light as instance of fairy X
☛ 1/5/19: The symbolism of the pig:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/02/05/the-symbolisms-of-the-pig/]
sexual and food-enthusiast snowclonelets X pig
☛ 2/25/19: Grammar pirate:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/02/25/grammar-pirate/]
grammar nazi
☛ 9/5/19: Revisiting 33: the ambiguity of the truffle:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/09/05/revisiting-33-the-ambiguity-of-the-truffle/]
X pig, both sexual-enthusiast and food-enthusiast