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== Relicado == | |||
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== TMI == | |||
Three Mile Information is better than Too Much Island. | |||
== Choler Coded == | |||
Each sentence needs to be choler-coded, so we know how choked with rage to feel. | |||
https://bbs.boingboing.net/t/mueller-report-exclusive-early-copy-of-bill-barrs-redacted-version-in-full/142650/38 | |||
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"At first glance it looks like a pyramid scheme, but really it's more of a funnel scheme." | "At first glance it looks like a pyramid scheme, but really it's more of a funnel scheme." | ||
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Latest revision as of 07:06, 24 April 2021
Things to use or delete. See Snippets.
Relicado
TMI
Three Mile Information is better than Too Much Island.
Choler Coded
Each sentence needs to be choler-coded, so we know how choked with rage to feel.
Rancid Piaster
Effigesiac
Compare Amnesiac.
Ipecac Theater Revival House
- Ipecac Theater Revival House - compare Rhizolith Group
See also:
- [Revival house @ Wikipedia
- The Decline (and Rise) of the Revival House @ Vanity Fair
On Playing Hurdie-Gurdies During a Skimble-Scamble
"I have an idea -- let's all play hurdy-gurdies during the skimble-scamble!"
- Katja's post @ Facebook
SLAB, SLOB, SLUB
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slab_allocation
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SLOB
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SLUB_(software)
Spiracles
I believe in spiracles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiracle
People Used To Chew Food With Their Teeth
A: "Analogue, you say? What sorcery is this?"
B: "I remember Grampa telling me how people used to chew their food with their teeth in order to prepare it for digestion."
As Tasty As They Look
"They are as tasty as they look."
Pause. "Is this a good thing or a bad thing?"
Belated Lover
Beloved Leader, Belated Lover ... whatever it takes.
Lord of the Plutons
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluton
Havelock
"For a time he played Russian Roulette for a living, a line of work which tended to attract gunslingers, thrill seekers, and disbelievers." - Mark Twain
Talys and Rephra
Talys and Rephra
Émanation Grise
Compare:
See also: Éminence grise - (or grey eminence) - a powerful decision-maker or adviser who operates "behind the scenes", or in a non-public or unofficial capacity.
Third of Serenity
The Identity of Ethanol Molecules
Notes
- Jaydore Trobe
- Light Syrup
- Center Pillar = Centipede + Caterpillar
- Lucrid
- Ten After What?
- Salps 'n' Palpa Marine Parasite Festival
- He Is The Saint Of Raucous Complaint / But The Raven Never Lies
- Have Gem, Will Bevel
- "My kid wants to be a ninja or a deep-sea diver." (Overheard on bus, 2018)
- The Wondering Abscences
- Athenagram
- Sometimes You Never No
- On bus, woman with flyswatter sticking from ... quietly singing to herself ... "sermon ... flying ..."
- Cloister Normal
- Bellarion the Fortunate
- Gian Galeazzo Visconti
First and Half Drink
The first-and-a-halfth drink of the evening.
Hostigial
Like vestigial, but with hostages.
Vestigial, from latin vestigium: Of unknown origin. Maybe from earlier *verstīgium, from verrō ("to sweep"). Or, possibly from vē- + *stīgō, from Proto-Indo-European *steygʰ- (“to walk”).
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vestigium#Latin
Adverstitium
Adverstitium.
Nice Day for a Wide Wetting
It's a nice day for a wide wetting.
The Impertinence of Being Honest
The Impertinence of Being Honest
Knackered Are We, Oh Lord
"Today's guest lecturer will now lead us in 'Knackered Are Wel, Oh Lord' -- that's number forty-nine in your programmer's hymnal."
Alumaxium
J'Arrive
Suddenly Sex
Emasculado
Emasculado
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
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
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
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.
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
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.
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://www.wired.com/story/steve-bannon-gaming-conference-saga/
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.
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
Cheetah with Red Ball
Arvid Rutherfang
Arvid Rutherfang
Nonchalanti
Nonchalanti.
We used to sell cigarettes in hospitals
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!
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
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
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.
$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
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
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://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://www.vice.com/en_us/article/rockin-romance-todays-comic-by-michael-kupperman
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
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
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
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
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."
Invent attribution
- A temporary solution to a permanent problem.
Archery
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.
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
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.