Snippets (fiction)

Things to use or delete. See Snippets.

Pillagio

See also Malevecchio.

King Jird

The king jird (Meriones rex) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found in Saudi Arabia and Yemen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_jird

The Bottle Imp

https://boingboing.net/2019/02/07/the-paradox-of-the-bottle-imp.html

Pug-Jaw Sizzle

Jigsaw Puzzle

Recursiok

Recursiok ... something recursion-related ... a villain? a sentient liquid crystal ...?

Indecent Schizocarp

• Indecent Schizocarp

Here's Looking at Euclid

Here's Looking at Euclid.

Grisalia

Grisalia

Scribbles from an envelope

• Wretch hazel
• Euphragmion
• Calisphrenia
• Fardel Brothers Moving Company
• Arbolition
• Luciphragm
• Wright Leewhining
• Candy From a Baby (card game)
• Bruce Wayne, Brew Swain
• Young Buzzards in Love
• I paid matriculous attention to my alma mater, your honor.
• Goodnight Sweetheart
• We've Got a Date in Dreamland
• Escutcheon Brothers
• You've got to get up pretty fast in the morning to pull one over on me
• Hanseatic Wave
• Medicule
• Constipation non referendum
• Gravuticity

Nicolo Gravitasio

• Nicolo Gravitasio

Inigo Malevecchio

• Inigo Malevecchio

Spanish farthingale

The Spanish verdugado, from which "farthingale" derives, was a hoop skirt originally stiffened with the subtropical Giant Cane; later designs in the temperate climate zone were stiffened with osiers (willow withies), rope, or (from about 1580) whalebone. The name verdugado comes from the Spanish verdugo, ("green wood", or the more modern meaning of "executioner").

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farthingale

Smews and Wigeons

" ... they managed to survive on smews, wigeons, and the like."

Crinoline Pie

Crinoline Pie.

Compare Savory Nickel.

One Hundred Milligrams of Lassitude

One Hundred Milligrams of Lassitude

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Hundred_Years_of_Solitude

Not Customers

Cory Doctorow:

Professionalization isn't perfect: historically, professional societies "were structured around hierarchies of gender and race and laypeople were expected to obey expert judgment without even asking questions."

But professionals were also organized around ethics of service and morals, with professional standards that required practitioners to use their expertise to further the public good.

Decades of neoliberal marketization has flattened out these service-based ethics, turning every kind of professional into just another kind of business with customers who expect "customer service," and "value for money." When teachers have "students," they are meant to teach those students the truth. But once teachers have "customers," they are expected to teach the things that deliver "satisfaction" -- Young Earth Creationism, eugenics, Lost Cause historical revisionism, and so on.

• Not customers: doctors have patients, libraries have patrons, lawyers have clients and teachers have students

Patagium Theater

The patagium (plural: patagia) is a membranous structure that assists an animal in gliding or flight. The structure is found in living and extinct groups of animals including bats, birds, some dromaeosaurs, pterosaurs, gliding mammals, some flying lizards, and flying frogs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patagium

The Naked Shorts

Naked short selling, or naked shorting, is the practice of short-selling a tradable asset of any kind without first borrowing the security or ensuring that the security can be borrowed, as is conventionally done in a short sale. When the seller does not obtain the shares within the required time frame, the result is known as a "failure to deliver". The transaction generally remains open until the shares are acquired by the seller, or the seller's broker settles the trade.

Short selling is used to anticipate a price fall, but exposes the seller to the risk of a price rise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_short_selling

An Ion Channel for Maxwell's Demon

An Ion Channel for Maxwell's Demon

Gravuticity

" ... the undenounceable gravuticity of it all, Your Honor ...!"

Euphoria Jones

Euphoria Jones

Behind Enemy Loins

Behind Enemy Loins

Prelum Ascensianum

Prelum Ascensianum - the press of van Asche

Jodocus Badius:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodocus_Badius

prēlum (prae-), i, n. premo, a press. A press-beam for pressing grapes, olives, etc.; also, meton., a wine-press, oil-press (class.), Cato, R. R. 31: cola prelorum, Verg. G. 2, 242 (prela trabes sunt, quibus uva jam calcata premitur, Serv.); Vitr. 6, 9; Plin. 18, 31, 74, § 317; Dig. 19, 2, 19.

— A press for smoothing clothes: tua collucent prela lacernis, Mart. 2, 46, 3; cf. id. 11, 8, 5.

https://latinlexicon.org/definition.php?p1=2047553&p2=p

No one deserves forgiveness. That's the beauty of grace.

"No one deserves forgiveness. That's the beauty of grace."

Preacher in Hell on Wheels (season one, episode four).

Wax fat and brutal

Boing Boing: "Flooding in Venice put three-quarters of the city underwater"

fuzzyfungus:

This is the season when the gondolas wax fat and brutal as their hunting grounds pour over into thoroughfares that habit fills with unwary prey; right? Because I’m pretty sure that’s a thing.

https://bbs.boingboing.net/t/flooding-in-venice-put-three-quarters-of-the-city-underwater/132223/35?u=karl_jones

Skinned the 1970s

"…that carpet. It’s like someone skinned the 1970s and laid its pelt across a small part of the MidWest."

-- MikeR

https://bbs.boingboing.net/t/a-once-respected-academic-games-conference-has-turned-into-such-a-dumpster-fire-that-steve-bannon-is-keynoting-it-now/132329/12?u=karl_jones

https://www.wired.com/story/steve-bannon-gaming-conference-saga/

https://discourse-cdn-aws1.com/boingboing/original/4X/6/d/6/6d64cc241dbabf9a73738253f4222ddec3ddec0c.jpeg

Laws only protect

Joe Fowler, business manager of Laborers Local 563, said Wardlow also attacked Minnesota’s prevailing wage law, which builds fair wage and benefit standards into the bidding process for public construction projects. For people who work in the Building Trades, Fowler said, having an attorney general who enforces prevailing wage is critical to their standard of living.

“Laws only protect the honest from the honest,” Fowler said. “Enforcement is what keeps the dishonest from taking advantage of the honest.”

https://advocate.stpaulunions.org/2018/10/11/workers-trust-ellison-to-have-their-back-as-ag/

Deceptacle

receptacle: Borrowed from Anglo-Norman receptacle, from Middle French receptacle (“organ containing a fluid; gathering place; water basin”) (modern French réceptacle), from Latin receptāculum (“animal enclosure, container, place of refuge, receptacle, repository, reservoir, shelter”), from receptāre (“to harbour, to receive, to shelter”) or receptō (“I receive back or again, I recover”), frequentative of recipiō (“I receive; I hold back, I reserve”) (from re- (“back, again”) + capiō (“I hold”)) + -culum (suffix forming nouns from verbs, particularly nouns representing tools and instruments); cognate with Italian recettaculo, ricettaculo, Portuguese receptáculo, Spanish receptáculo.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/receptacle

One Like to Give

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Life_to_Live

"Monkeys Ate My Fig Leaf"

https://www.facebook.com/kijjohnson/posts/10157056233239416?comment_id=10157056331894416

Recursive Apology Disorder

Do you apologize for apologizing? And then issue a third apology to reinforce the second apology?

You may be suffering from Recursive Apology Disorder (RAD).

If you are experiencing symptoms of Recursive Apology Disorder, talk with your ethicist. You may be able to stop apologizing simply by stopping apologizing.

https://www.facebook.com/steven.brust.1/posts/10160884880920641?comment_id=10160885050430641&comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R%22%7D

Scene

"How are you doing."

"I'm fine."

"Do you mean fine fine, or just okay fine?"

"Fine fine. I'm usually pretty honest about those things. I try not to do the Minnesota Nice thing, where you say "I'm okay" when you're not really okay."

"I know what you mean ...."

"If I'm not fine, I usually say what's wrong. Not to go on about it, but I don't believe in dodging the truth. That's like the reverse of the boy who cried wolf. If you don't ask for help when you're not fine, the wolf eats you."

Background images

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sneffelsrange.JPG

Forensic architecture

Using "forensic architecture" to punch Greek Nazis...in court

https://boingboing.net/2018/10/07/agcab.html

TO DO

• http://gnomonchronicles.com/wiki/The_Consternation_of_Philosophy

Cheetah with Red Ball

• https://boingboing.net/2018/09/13/zoo-cheetahs-exercise-by-chasi.html

Arvid Rutherfang

Arvid Rutherfang

Nonchalanti

Nonchalanti.

We used to sell cigarettes in hospitals

https://www.statnews.com/2016/10/21/cigarettes-hospital-medicine/?s_campaign=tw&utm_content=buffer91213&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Pedicoiffe

Pedicoiffe

The Jujyfruit Murders

The Jujyfruit Murders

Saint Hallvard's gold record

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Hallvard_.jpg

Rosanna

https://www.guitaretab.com/t/toto/366107.html

Exocoatl

Exocoatl

Sour grapes, anyone?

Sour grapes thrive in the rich, loamy muck of the human soul.

Sprinkle that loamy muck with water of avarice, and you’ve got yourself a vineyard of spleen!

https://bbs.boingboing.net/t/probably-a-lot-of-pot-smoking-at-twitter-says-entrepreneur-who-dreams-of-floating-libertarian-island/41267/12

LSD eases anxiety of dying patients

Fear of dying is an economic driver.

If this Fearless Acid thing catches on, who’s going to overconsume in a desperate bid to cheat Death?

https://boingboing.net/2014/03/06/first-clinical-lsd-trial-in-4.html

Lovecraftian health care services

"Well, it now turns out that confidential health service data was delivered to an agency set up by Lovecraftian Great Old Ones, who used the information to rank every person in the British Isles according to their edibility, accompanying the ratings with tasting notes (“a naive little primary school teacher with a rather velvety finish and poignant aftertastes of apricot and childhood sadness”). Acting on this information, Hastur the Unspeakable recently ate Glasgow and everyone in it."

- angusm @ Boing Boing

https://bbs.boingboing.net/t/full-nhs-hospital-records-uploaded-to-google-servers-infinitely-worse-story-to-come/24571/42?u=karl_jones

So Deep in Debt

So deep in debt

Doesn't anybody pay off their loans anymore?

It would be so fine to clean up my credit score

And it doesn't help to know you offer

Payday loans

Long ago I took a took a few and spent all that cash

Leaving me regretful, I was foolish and rash

Procedurally-generated urinal cakes

Procedurally-generated urinal cakes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urinal_deodorizer_block

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procedural_generation

Donald Trump, Nuclear Commander

"Luckily - and not many people know this - to initiate the launch sequence, the President has to pluck “Pop Goes the Weasel” on the red ukulele carried by that ever-present military attaché."

- futnuh @ Boing Boing

https://bbs.boingboing.net/t/trump-compares-his-lack-of-an-organ-to-elton-johns-organ/124204/41

Videos

• THE OVERLOOK HOTEL CLASSIC HORROR MASHUP

Wash Hands Before Using Restroom

[A certain establishment]: It's the kind of place where you wash your hands before using the restroom.

Phlebians vs. Arteristocrats

Phlebians versus Arteristocrats

My Inner Stalin

My Inner Stalin.

Scrutiny

Scrutiny (French: scrutin; Late Latin: scrutinium; from scrutari, meaning "those who search through piles of rubbish in the hope of finding something of" and originally from the Latin "scruta," meaning "broken things, rags, or rubbish."). In Roman times, the "scrutari" of cities and towns were those who laboriously searched for valuables amidst the waste and cast-offs of others. The modern English "scrutiny" is derived from this root, indicating a careful examination or inquiry (often implying the search for a hidden mistake, misstatement, or incongruity).

The word is specifically applied in the early Roman Catholic Church to the examination of the catechumens or those under instruction in the faith.

Scrutiny is also a term applied to a method of electing a pope in the Catholic Church, in contradistinction to two other methods, acclamation and accession.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrutiny

YouTube

Matrix/Office Space mashup

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkDHDYy_9cE

The Joker Meets the Bobs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru67mfysu_E

Naming drugs

https://www.cnn.com/2016/11/25/health/art-of-drug-naming/index.html

Lixiviate

Lixiviate, meaning to leach, to dissolve out, deriving from the Latin lixivium.

phthorá

phthorá, "destruction"

Black death humor

Say what you like about the black death, but it addressed ordinary people's very real concerns about overpopulation, which medieval elites had totally ignored.

https://bbs.boingboing.net/t/after-annihilation-at-the-polls-far-right-ukip-leader-compares-own-party-to-the-black-death/120277/4

$1 bills glued to the HVAC filters

I see the same thing writ large when I do HVAC ductwork. 2’ x 4’ Turning vanes completely clogged with 40 years of dust/munge/fur and they wonder why “the heat isn’t getting up there”. I replaced filters on an old building’s roof unit once and it had $1 bills glued to it, it had sucked them up from strip shows two floors down. It’s great once it’s clean though, I bet even these computer repair folks have to admit there’s nothing as satisfying as peeling off that dust blanket.

JeffreyHayner1h

https://bbs.boingboing.net/t/tech-support-gore/109767/22

Lost in Bohemium

Lost in Bohemium

Calendar synesthesia

Synesthesia is the fascinating neurological phenomenon whereby stimulation of one sense involuntarily triggers another sensory pathway. A synesthete might taste sounds or hear colors. Now, leading synesthesia researcher VS Rakmachandran at the University of California, San Diego is studying "calendar synesthetes" who see very clear images of calendars in their mind's eye when they think about months that have passed or are in the future. For example, according to New Scientist, one participant in the research "sees her months as occupying an asymmetrical “V” shape. Along this V, she sees each month written in Helvetica font."

https://boingboing.net/2016/11/16/what-people-with-calendar-sy.html

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2113063-synaesthetes-who-see-calendar-hint-how-our-brains-handle-time/

Y Combinator

http://confreaks.tv/videos/rubyconf2012-y-not-adventures-in-functional-programming

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/93526/what-is-a-y-combinator

https://medium.com/@ayanonagon/the-y-combinator-no-not-that-one-7268d8d9c46

http://mvanier.livejournal.com/2897.html

Jesters and Jugglers

Oh, Jesters, let's go down ... down to the river to play

Oh, Jugglers, let's go down ...

Roughage Rampage

Roughage Rampage

World in a Noose

I've Got the World in a Noose

Links

http://boingboing.net/2017/06/14/everything-you-always-wanted-t-2.html

http://boingboing.net/2017/06/13/real-words-that-work-as-css-co.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sector_(instrument)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_J._de_Solla_Price

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Biruni

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ismail_al-Jazari

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michiel_Coignet

Paranoia

Paranoia

Edward Bernays, the father of public relations, author "Propaganda" (1928)

State dept. official Steve Pieczenik, whistleblower, Lolita Express / Jeff Epstein

US Rep. Cynthia McKinney grilled Donald Rumsfeld on DynCorp trafficking women and children

Pizzagate

Ted Gunderson, FBI special agent, head of LA office

Source: Collective Evolution website

Operation Wandering Ghost

Operation Wandering Soul was a propaganda campaign exercised by U.S. Forces during the Vietnam War.

The operation played off the belief of many Vietnamese in the "wandering soul":

"It is the Vietnamese belief that the dead must be buried in their homeland, or their soul will wander aimlessly in pain and suffering. Vietnamese feel that if a person is improperly buried, then their soul wanders constantly. They can sometimes be contacted on the anniversary of their death and near where they died. Vietnamese honor these dead souls on a holiday when they return to the site where they died."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Wandering_Soul_(Vietnam_War)

Pinball Prison Blues

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6bfPwtUTP4k

Mystery airships

https://northatlanticblog.wordpress.com/2016/08/25/mystery-airship-sightings/

Solid State

Jonathan Coulton is known for a myriad of distinct accomplishments. The tech professional-turned-musician once conducted a Thing a Week experiment, in which he recorded and published a new song every Friday for a year, produced a cover of Sir Mix-a-Lot's "Baby Got Back" infamously adopted by the Fox series Glee, regularly contributes to the NPR quiz show "Ask Me Another" as its very own one-man band, and runs his own fan cruise aptly called the JoCo Cruise.

On April 28 he will release a new album Solid State and today he shares a video for the first single "All this time".

The ... album [Solid State] is linked to a new graphic novel written by Matt Fraction and drawn by Albert Monteys. Solid State narrates a trippy epic, a psychedelic, futuristic narrative about two men whose fates are linked over time (and who are both, as it happens, named Bob) and the God-like artificial intelligence that both protects and abandons them. It's a Neal Stephenson/Ray Kurzweil/Kevin Kelly-inflected fable that is located at the end of the world, much of it deep inside a city that has been sedated by what Coulton calls "nicey-nice fascism" -- locked-in, medicated, machine-run-and which is ringed by a raw, ruined apocalyptic landscape. The graphic novel is a story about how we got there from here.

https://boingboing.net/2017/03/29/raw-ruined-apocalyptic-landsca.html

Links

http://boingboing.net/2017/02/13/how-to-become-a-superstar-vlog.html

http://boingboing.net/2017/02/13/otonamaki-wrapping-oneself-in.html

http://boingboing.net/2017/02/13/hyperbolic-tiling-can-you.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_tilings_in_hyperbolic_plane

https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n04/sidney-blumenthal/a-short-history-of-the-trump-family

http://www.facade.com/iching/personal/?UID=662434&Name=KGJ&Query=If+Jennifer+is+my+blowjob+queen+I+will+love+her+forever&Deck=yarrow

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/17/02/13/164224/encrypted-email-is-still-a-pain-in-2017

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._S._G._Boggs

http://boingboing.net/2017/02/13/rip-j-s-g-boggs-1955-2017.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Smullyan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tao_Ruspoli

The Gunfighter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXfltmzRG-g&t=6s

http://boingboing.net/2017/02/20/brain-scans-of-artificial.html

https://medium.freecodecamp.com/tor-signal-and-beyond-a-law-abiding-citizens-guide-to-privacy-1a593f2104c3#.azqhe4g34

https://www.wired.com/2017/02/ai-hedge-fund-created-new-currency-make-wall-street-work-like-open-source/

https://www.facebook.com/kfokken/posts/10211782834223583

http://boingboing.net/2017/02/23/ai-learns-to-write-code-the-ol.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Menken

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_of_Sheba_Meets_the_Atom_Man

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flower_Thief

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Since_(film)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_Dracula

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achim_Leistner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpmkpCK3ysg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8D90DkCLhI

https://theintercept.com/2015/07/30/jimmy-carter-u-s-oligarchy-unlimited-political-bribery/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tullimonstrum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Terry#/media/File:Ellen_Terry_as_Lady_Macbeth.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rossa_Matilda_Richter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww7CqsQ5Pf4 (red dragonfly)

http://existentialcomics.com/comic/175

http://boingboing.net/2017/03/08/mens-et-manus-et-mathematica.html

http://boingboing.net/2017/03/08/how-a-fishing-guides-wordpre.html

http://jhuttonpulitzer.blogspot.com/2012/04/who-is-jovan-or-j-hutton-pulitzer-wiki.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bijon_Setu_massacre

http://boingboing.net/2017/03/09/squash-stretch-and-general-rel.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Act_of_Killing

http://boingboing.net/2017/03/15/unfair-by-design.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_New_York_divorce_torture_plot

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Whiskey_Rebels

https://it.slashdot.org/story/17/03/16/202251/20000-worldclass-university-lectures-made-illegal-so-we-irrevocably-mirrored-them

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/rockin-romance-todays-comic-by-michael-kupperman

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/510f3511e4b0b75977459cdd/5125c092e4b034a90a137c93/516cee94e4b0f84b63129856/1366093461292/Screen+Shot+2013-04-16+at+1.46.15+AM.png

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lise_Meitner

Carnevale

Finally I want to remind the brothers that the devil makes a lot of leverage on children to bring corruption into the homes of believers; so you need to watch not to fall into its traps placed in our path. An example for all; many believers behind the entreaties of their children bought television to satisfy their wish and make them happy and then they themselves have become slaves of television. They thought they were doing good to their children by buying television, but then over time have included them greatly damaged comprandogliela.

http://www.lanuovavia.org/sant_089_carnevale.html

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lanuovavia.org%2Fsant_089_carnevale.html&edit-text=&act=url

Weebly or Strikingly or Wix or Squarespace

You pay nothing to set up a web page with Weebly or Strikingly or Wix or Squarespace.

Too Far Gone

Too far gone to cry for help.

Amphisbaena Enterprises

Amphisbaena Enterprises

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphisbaena

Thixotropic Bishop

Thixotropic Bishop

Tilting the Routinized Paramour

Tilting the Routinized Paramour

As above, so below

An infinite desire.

An agreement begins.

As above, so below.

Crown shyness

• Crown shyness
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_shyness

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5030014/quotes

Immanentize the eschaton

"Don't immanentize the eschaton!"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanentize_the_eschaton

A more perfect selfishness

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/18/03/18/2153212/mapping-apps-like-waze-google-maps-and-apple-maps-may-make-traffic-conditions-worse-in-some-areas-new-research-suggests

Taste bud asymmetry

There's a reason your body has taste buds at one end of the alimentary canal and not at the other.

Very Iffy

Spelled "verify" but pronounced "very iffy".

Fantasy Voronoi diagram

File:Voronoi-diagram-color-commentators.jpg|link=Fantasy Voronoi diagram|1982: Fantasy Voronoi diagram commentators say that "...".

Efficiency vs. Beauty

Efficiency is overrated. It tramples all over Beauty.

Complicity

We're all complicit if we pay taxes and breath American air.

Snowball Building Up Steam

Like a snowball building up steam ...

Notes on Nursing

• Notes on Nursing

Gilding the goose

Gilding the goose that laid the leaden egg.

Gilding the goose that laid the golden lily.

Vasoconstriction

"Goddamn right, nicotine messes with your circulation. It's a vasoconstrictor -- that's like a boa constrictor, inside your body."

Fallow Synapse

Fallow Synapse

Quinine Eve

Quinine Eve

Reunited at Birth

Reunited at Birth

Nocticola

Nocticola: Latin for "night-dweller".

https://latin.stackexchange.com/questions/5349/what-would-be-a-night-owl-in-latin

Not with a whim ...

Not with a whim, but with a banker.

The Devil doesn't need advocates

"The Devil doesn't need advocates, certainly not pro bono."

- One Brown Mouse @ Boing Boing

https://bbs.boingboing.net/t/rich-people-in-california-connecticut-massachusetts-new-york-and-pennsylvania-are-to-blame-for-dangerous-anti-vaxx-surge/108603/39?u=karl_jones

Everybody Sprays the Drool

Everybody sprays the drool sometime ...

Spear carriers ...

"You got your spear carriers, and then you got your spear-getter-in-the-gutters."

Funnel Scheme

"At first glance it looks like a pyramid scheme, but really it's more of a funnel scheme."

Vomiting Feather

A: "Oh, man, I just ate five donuts, and I feel sick."

B: "If I had my vomiting feather, I'd share it with you."

Regex

• Can This Regex Be Saved?

Invent attribution

• A temporary solution to a permanent problem.

Archery

• https://www.minneapolisparks.org/parks__destinations/parks__lakes/edward_c_solomon_park/

auguremia

• auguremia

On Voting

There's only one "i" in "voting".

copular deixis

copular deixis: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique_case

Shining Shields

"Shining Shields" reported by Pliny the Elder

Cantor Parabola Meets

Hmmm. Oscar Barnack certainly. Lewis Carroll. Allan Turing. Jules Verne. And Georg Cantor of course.

Links

• http://bikeshed.org/

Nonsense

• Nonsense word generator

Latin phrases

• Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius. ("Kill them all. For the Lord knows those who are his."). Supposed statement by Abbot Arnaud Amalric before the massacre of Béziers during the Albigensian Crusade, recorded 30 years later, according to Caesarius of Heisterbach. cf. "Kill them all and let God sort them out."

Links to pursue

• Aimee Laurel
• Andrea Graham
• http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/760947/what-cubic-problems-did-tartaglia-and-fior-pose-to-each-other

Overheard (true quotes)

• "I vow to crush all of my children's dreams. That's my main goal in life." (Female co-worker in her mid-thirties.)

Etc.

• Trysting, trysting ... one, two ....
• Florin for your thoughts.
• I Gambol as I Grumble.
• Cards Longa, Vita Brevis.
• As far as I'm concerned, your out of control is under control.
• I'll take it under behoovement.
• Squanderosa: the dinner club for a gilded era.

Games etc.

• Balloon Wars - speech balloons vs. thought balloons
• Origami Crane - Origami Crane game
• The Stepford Consumers
• Green Treacle 5
• The Bespokesman
• Carrie d'Auouei from Hawaii
• Egocluniac
• Too Early Gig ("Twirly Gig")
• Silk Tornado
• Ocean Front Properly
• Ocean Front Prosperity
• Leonyda, Leona, Lyonah
• Tarski's World

Egypta Commodificata

• Pharaoh Unlimited
• United Afterlife
• Necropolis Associates
• North-South Kingdoms Free Trade Association
• Greater North Kingdom Co-Prosperity Zone

Lords of the Phantom Zone

• Lords of the Phantom Zone
• Lords of the Phantom Zone (nonfiction)
• Belle Reve: Prisone Bastille

Mashups

Rodeo Clown MASH_UP Mystery Date

Moon in your perfume MASH_UP Shooting Star

Misc.

• Copper: the Shameless Metal

• Alba Zorba

• Straw dogs, plastics sturgeons -- whatever it takes.

Boat-builders

Boat-builders are a breed apart. What Texans are to land, boat-builders are to water.

External links

• Untitled DC Comics Project.com.