Past comments by John McGrath

  • “Love this word. And love that there's a single solitary Flickr image for it.”

    43 minutes ago, on the word jerkinhead

  • “Hi pu, profile comments will go back to there full length soon, possibly tonight.”

    About 6 hours ago, on possibleunderscore's profile

  • “I feel like I'm being mooned by a smurf.”

    About 21 hours ago, on the word ɷ

  • “Hi lcmt, re: the comments on reel, I thought you'd enjoy this story on the http://bygonebureau.com/2010/03/17/the-comment-box-poets-of-t...”

    1 day ago, on agatehinge's profile

  • “Are you sure you don't mean acrid?”

    1 day ago, on the word acri

  • “Excellent! Though I thought that as vehicles, lawn chairs were more traditionally tied to bunches of balloons. ”

    1 day ago, on the word first cars

  • “Ok, so that's not me, but I really did have one of those when I was 16, which I bought for $400. You could fold down the roof, flip down the windsh...”

    3 days ago, on the word first cars

  • “1970 VW Thing. The perfect car for a young jackass like myself, because it couldn't go over 50 mph. http://www.workingpsychology.com/ger-f...”

    3 days ago, on the word first cars

  • “I think I like this game. Should it be a list?”

    3 days ago, on the word first cars

  • “Forgot all about this list—I love it.

    In '91 I saw them in Spain, with Joe Strummer singing. Pretty sure it was a great show.”

    4 days ago, on the list The Pogues

  • “hey junior, we normally encourage people to promote other word sites here, but to come in and splash your url all over the place, while contributin...”

    4 days ago, on seniorscribe's profile

  • “Hi pro, sorry for the delayed response. Profile links seem to be working now. Tomorrow I'll look into what happened with your decapitalization—it w...”

    5 days ago, on prolagus's profile

  • “Right on ah. The cloche deserves its day, and it would be a better world if frat boys wore them.

    I'm still trying to figure out who "they" are.”

    5 days ago, on the word cloche

  • “No—we're friends to all words.”

    6 days ago, on the word situacion

  • “Although his posts are sometimes “harmonized” — a popular euphemism for censorship —his blog, published by one of China’s most popular Web portals...”

    6 days ago, on the word harmonized

  • “Non-playable interstitial scenes in video games, used to break up the gameplay or advance the plot.”

    7 days ago, on the word cutscene

  • “Hi t, I believe there's a stats blog post in the works. Once I've read it I'll put a condensed explanation on the stats page itself.

    Your en dash ...”

    8 days ago, on telofy's profile

  • “Also, a vacation from the subjunctive.”

    9 days ago, on the word grammatication

  • “Hi marky (and any other developers out there), we just added a new API method to get thesaurus data such as synonyms, antonyms, and other nyms. Mor...”

    10 days ago, on feedback's profile

  • “Ruzuzu, thanks for my new favorite word!

    Looks like it's real. http://www.livevideo.com/video/D7095845F7C14D368980B0B16010F198/sonolumine...”

    10 days ago, on the word shrimpoluminescence

  • “Oh dontcry, I'm so very sorry.

    Glad you got a brief respite. You're in my thoughts.”

    10 days ago, on dontcry's profile

  • “Am corresponding separately with PU about this, but has anyone else experienced this since after the Wordie migration? I don't doubt that something...”

    11 days ago, on feedback's profile

  • “pu, I'll email you again about the lists issue--it's very upsetting to me as well, I apologize and will try again to get to the bottom of it.”

    11 days ago, on possibleunderscore's profile

  • “Yes, we often freeze about-to-go bananas for later bread baking. Works a charm.

    Though the best way to preserve bananas is to peel them, dip them ...”

    11 days ago, on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator

  • “Just my personal opinion, but I don't mind the odd poem here and there. It's been done before.

    As yarb says, it's easier to not set off the self-p...”

    11 days ago, on the word reel

  • “Shitty handwriting”

    12 days ago, on the word cacography

  • “An entire tractate, or volume, of the Talmud deals with the eruv.”

    The New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/06/u...”

    14 days ago, on the word tractate

  • “Almost literally invisible even to observant Jews, the wire or string of an eruv, connected from pole to pole, allows the out-of-doors to be consi...”

    14 days ago, on the word eruv

  • “See comments on muffin top.”

    15 days ago, on the word Muffin top

  • “Charlie Sheen enters rehab as "preventative measure." Or as I call it, prehab.”

    ...”

    15 days ago, on the word prehab

  • “Oh my. Fun game, verging on nsfw. I just typed in "Why" and got completions including "can't I own a Canadian" and "do men have nipples."

    Fair q...”

    15 days ago, on the list Oh, google! You're so droll

  • “dude, you were *just* on the right side of the law, despite your username and profile, until you put a spam url in a comment. goodbye.”

    16 days ago, on themeliscuiper's profile

  • “And examples, too, are in the midst of being retooled--the weirdness you've noted lately should all be fixed when we release the next set of update...”

    17 days ago, on marrymemckean's profile

  • “Tweaked the stylesheets--see my comment over on dontcry's profile. If you're not seeing it you might want to shift-re...”

    18 days ago, on marky's profile

  • “Yeah, was fiddling with the knobs earlier--links are now their default color for whatever browser you're using. Varies a bit, but it's generally bl...”

    18 days ago, on dontcry's profile

  • “Yep, the examples engine is in the shop for repairs. When it comes out, it'll drive like the General Lee.

    Which makes Tony Cooter, I think.”

    18 days ago, on the word circumscribe

  • “Really great list. Wonder what those nutty Puritans called their kid for short--Ifchrist? Hadstbeen?”

    19 days ago, on the list If-Christ-Had-Not-Died-For-Thee-Thou-Hadst-Been-Damned

  • “Before 60,000 spectators who donned brown moose antler hats and pixilated the stadium with lights, Canada had fun with its ice-hockey loving, wild...”

    19 days ago, on the word Canadiana

  • “Luongo employs the butterfly goaltending style, more fluid and nimble in the net.”

    The New York Times, http://vancouver2010.blo...”

    19 days ago, on the word butterfly

  • “All that, this morning? What a fantastic way to start a day :-)”

    21 days ago, on the list Laguna Manialtepec

  • “Let’s face it: if baseball and football were in the winter, nobody would be watching,” said Robert P. Kelly, the chief executive of Bank of New Yo...”

    22 days ago, on the word skip

  • “People at Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase and even the Treasury Department have gone a bit curling crazy. Terms like “ki...”

    22 days ago, on the word kizzle kazzle

  • “Speaking of deletion, I'm wondering if folks think that option should always be available, or only for a certain window in time. I'm thinking comme...”

    22 days ago, on feedback's profile

  • “Hi mmm, we're working on making both comments and pronunciations deletable by their creators, should be available in the coming few weeks. I always...”

    22 days ago, on marrymemckean's profile

  • “I be lief this word is not used much anymore.”

    23 days ago, on the word lief

  • “Fantastic, thanks. I was way in to the X-Men in the 80's, until my head got turned by a girl, and the comics were shelved in her favor. Not a bad c...”

    23 days ago, on the list Negasonic Teenage Warhead

  • “Is the title of this list a reference, or three? I love it.”

    23 days ago, on the list Negasonic Teenage Warhead

  • “Yeah, I had the same thought :-) How about when we add paging, we'll also add sorting? Will be fun to go through in both directions.”

    23 days ago, on feedback's profile

  • “I wasn't sure, but Gooble's first result for it is r...”

    23 days ago, on the word pageable

  • “Move my response over to pageable.”

    23 days ago, on feedback's profile

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