lampbane has looked up 342 words, created 137 lists, listed 5494 words, written 845 comments, added 1326 tags, and loved 18 words.
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Maybe! Or maybe "4 Color world". You choose!
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Maybe you were thinking about my Geek Culture list?
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I can't find your list about manga/anime (if you had one... I think so). I wanted to add fanservice, I saw your list about Japan in general but I'm not sure it's the right one.
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I liked that "This f***ing election bit. All but the "Ron Paul overlution" part. ...OK, never mind, that was pretty funny, too. ...Write him in!
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Hell yeah. We have the best damn marketing copy in... the... WORLD!
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Marketing copy will do that to you. ;)
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Lampbane, your citations on the American Gladiator word pages have absolutely made my evening. They make me feel almost... patriotic, I think.
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Thanks for the additions, lampbane.
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you're really into words, aren't you
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Fantabulous find, this page of yours :)
lampbane commented on the list ice-ice-baby
Slushie is a drink, this is for desserts... maybe I should make that more clear in the "about."
Jan 12, 2012
lampbane commented on the list how-to-make-a-facebook-game
reesetee: You mean like this?
May 23, 2011
lampbane commented on the list how-to-make-a-facebook-game
As in, does the game involve kittens? It appears so. Though the game also appears to only have 50 players.
May 19, 2011
lampbane commented on the list how-to-make-a-facebook-game
YES
May 18, 2011
lampbane commented on the user Prolagus
Maybe you were thinking about my Geek Culture list?
May 18, 2011
lampbane commented on the user lampbane
Maybe you were thinking about my Geek Culture list?
May 18, 2011
lampbane commented on the list how-to-make-a-facebook-game
Absolutely (though how many are still active, no idea).
May 18, 2011
lampbane commented on the list gotta-get-paid
Sure, why not?
Mar 22, 2011
lampbane commented on the word dickwolves
Penny Arcade (08/11/2010):
"Every night, we are raped to sleep by the dickwolves."
Mar 22, 2011
lampbane commented on the word snakedick
Penny Arcade (10/15/2010):
"Is that really bad, or really awesome?"
Mar 22, 2011
lampbane commented on the word slyrup
Penny Arcade (01/05/2011):
"I had developed the Fifth Matter. Solid. Liquid. Gas. Plasma. And now, Slyrup."
Mar 22, 2011
lampbane commented on the word PokApartheid
Penny Arcade (03/02/2011):
"You're a white supremacist. This is PokApartheid!"
Mar 22, 2011
lampbane commented on the word roll and rock
Penny Arcade (01/20/10):
"Our first song is... THE OWLBEAR'S LAMENT."
Jun 8, 2010
lampbane commented on the word powdered bone slime
Penny Arcade (04/07/10):
"Aaand... that's why they call it Jell-O."
Jun 8, 2010
lampbane commented on the word Cthulhu'd
Penny Arcade (04/09/10):
"You just got Cthulhu'd!"
Jun 8, 2010
lampbane commented on the word philandering
Penny Arcade (04/23/10):
"You know what else is cool? Philandering. How does one get started with that?"
Jun 8, 2010
lampbane commented on the word gunhorse
Penny Arcade (05/19/10):
"Gunhorse. It's DLC."
Jun 8, 2010
lampbane commented on the word mosey
Penny Arcade (05/24/10):
"I just got into town and I want to mosey. How do I mosey?"
Jun 8, 2010
lampbane commented on the word douche
Penny Arcade (06/02/10):
"It's like vaginal mouthwash."
Jun 8, 2010
lampbane commented on the word pauldron
Penny Arcade (06/07/10):
"It ends with you in the woods at some makeshift bazaar, seriously considering buying a pauldron."
Jun 8, 2010
lampbane commented on the list my-words-are-numbered
I'm sure there's a reason I didn't put them in in the first place, but it's been so long I can't remember.
Jan 29, 2010
lampbane commented on the word tefillin
A Flight Is Diverted by a Prayer Seen as Ominous (New York Times, January 21, 2010)
The plane, a 50-seat regional aircraft that was less than a third full when it took off from La Guardia Airport, had been climbing through the early-morning sky for about 25 minutes. A 17-year-old passenger in a whitish sweater took out something he had carried onboard, and strapped it onto his wrist and his head.
To some people in New York, that is a relatively common sight: an observant Jew beginning the ritual of morning prayer. But to at least one person on US Airways Express Flight 3079 on Thursday — the flight attendant — it looked ominous, as if the young man were wrapping himself in cables or wires.
Jan 24, 2010
lampbane commented on the word unobtainium
Possibly the stupidest thing about the Avatar movie.
Jan 13, 2010
lampbane commented on the word agunah
GETTING THE “GET”: AN INVISIBLE PRISON BETWEEN MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE (The Brooklyn Ink, December 11, 2009)
Hannah Nagila’s sons are 3 and 5 years old, and they already know what an agunah is. They have told their mother what their father tells them: “Daddy says you’re going to be an agunah until you pay back every cent.”
Agunah is the term for a Jewish woman chained to a dead marriage. Under Jewish religious law, a husband must issue his wife an official bill of divorce, known as a get, to end an Orthodox marriage. The central provision of the get is simple: “You are hereby permitted to all men.” Without a get, the woman is branded an adulteress as soon as she enters another relationship. She cannot remarry under Jewish law, and any child from another man is labeled a mamzer, or bastard child. A mamzer can only marry another mamzer or a convert.
Historically, agunah cases were the result of a husband’s death, disappearance, or mental insanity. Today, they more often stem from vindictive husbands who exploit the get as a form of control. The get becomes a bargaining chip—leveraged for large sums of money or custody of the children.
Dec 11, 2009
lampbane commented on the word spic
Poetry Series Spurs Debate on the Use of an Old Slur Against Latinos (New York Times, November 21, 2009)
The word sounds retro, but its corrosive power lingers. Once a cruelly common taunt that mocked the way Spanish speakers pronounced “speak,” it set off fights, shattered friendships and trampled feelings.
Now that word forms the title of a poetry series — “Spic Up/Speak Out” — at, of all places, El Museo del Barrio in East Harlem, on Saturday.
Organizers say that the provocative title is intended as a postmodern take, inviting dialogue and debate over issues of identity. Some of the participating poets have embraced the title as a symbolic inversion of the word, that neutralizes its sting. But others are not so sure.
“I guess I get it, but I don’t like the joke,” said Aracelis Girmay, a young poet who declined to participate. “It would be one thing if it were some underground place, but it’s at an institution. El Museo del Barrio is supposed to be the place that I would expect would guard our culture respectfully. This is giving dangerous permission to that word. It’s inviting it through the front door.”
Dec 4, 2009
lampbane commented on the word newsak
Background news; meaningless news that's on all the time. (Daily Show With Jon Stewart, December 1, 2009)
Dec 4, 2009
lampbane commented on the word tonight
A word frequently abused by weather reports, and as a consequence, I now despise this word.
I always check the weather in the morning so I know what to wear. Winter coat, windbreaker, or no coat at all? Sweater or t-shirt? Regular shoes, or boots? Should I bring an umbrella? A hat?
Now, they'll give you the current temperature, and that's fine, because if you're going out now you should prepare for the weather as it exists right now. But the tricky part is the weather later, when you come back. You know what it's like when you go to work, because the weather report will tell you and you can always look outside. But what about coming home?
The weather report will tell you the high and the low. "Today, the high will be 69 degrees." And today is simple enough. If it's the high and it's today, they're most likely referring to midday, between 12-2, when most people go to lunch. But then they'll say, "tonight, the low will be 42 degrees." Now, you could assume that tonight means the middle of the night, like after midnight. But then the same report will give you the overnight temperatures! And unless you work really late or hang out really late, that doesn't do you any good. And it doesn't resolve what "tonight" refers to.
Is it when the sun goes down? That would make it as early as 4pm in some places. Is it when the evening begins? But does the evening start at 6pm or 8pm?
"Tonight" certainly doesn't mean when I leave work. If I prepare for the low temperature, I'm often overdressed at 6pm. I thought maybe it was 8pm, but again, I've been overdressed. Now I check the hour-by-hour temperatures to see what it's like when I leave work, and you know when those "tonight" temperatures usually hit?
10pm.
According to Weather.com, anyway. Whether there's been a big meeting amongst meteorologists to determine the exact meaning of "today" and "tonight" and "overnight" I don't know, but I'm going to guess no, because they still can't get the weather report right.
This was all brought to you by the fact that in New York City today, the high is supposed to be 66 and the low 42.
I don't know exactly how one dresses for that. Guess I'm using layers.
Dec 3, 2009
lampbane commented on the word apple pie
I have a carton of Edy's Apple Pie ice cream in my freezer right now. The other day I noticed the carton doesn't say ice cream, it says "frozen dessert."
Nov 24, 2009
lampbane commented on the user feedback
This list still has broken characters (the 'o' with a macron). It's particularly troublesome because I can't get to the comments page for �?endan (which should be ōendan).
Nov 24, 2009
lampbane commented on the word Na'vi
USC professor creates an entire alien language for 'Avatar' (LA Times, November 20, 2009)
Between the scripts for the film and the video game, Frommer has a bit more than 1,000 words in the Na'vi language, as well as all the rules and structure of the language itself. "I'm adding to that all the time," said Frommer, who says he would like to see the new tongue catch on in the way that Klingon has become a studied language among especially, um, engaged fans of "Star Trek."
Nov 24, 2009
lampbane commented on the word ellis
Ellis Island, now considered part of New Jersey.
Nov 24, 2009
lampbane commented on the word metamind
Penny Arcade (07/20/09):
"Our Metaminds are forged of eight geniuses, acting in tandem, suspended in a perpetual nightmare."
Nov 24, 2009
lampbane commented on the word ham doctor
Penny Arcade (07/22/09):
"We don't just identify profanity - we can predictively flag terms which are soon to be profane."
Nov 24, 2009
lampbane commented on the word blue
Penny Arcade (09/04/09):
"Blue is a flavor."
"Yes. But only in the context of slush-based beverages."
Nov 24, 2009
lampbane commented on the word onnomottoppeeia
Penny Arcade (09/28/09):
"If I made a 15 letter word, that shit would be on my fucking tombstone."
Nov 24, 2009
lampbane commented on the word magic
Penny Arcade (11/02/09):
"He's a wizard, and he used magic."
"I get that, but in the context of..."
"MAGIC!"
Nov 24, 2009
lampbane commented on the word droid
Registered trademark of Lucasfilm Ltd.
Nov 24, 2009
lampbane commented on the word totally
For when you need to talk like a Valley girl:
"The walls in the mall are totally totally tall."
(From Tiny Toon Adventures)
Nov 23, 2009
lampbane commented on the word Kino
The name that Eli gives to the Ancient camera device on Stargate: Universe. From "Kino-Pravda".
Nov 23, 2009
lampbane commented on the word backronym
BUMP
(Backronym: Bring Up My Post)
Nov 23, 2009
lampbane commented on the word gleek
I can't embed, so a link to the commercial will have to do.
They're also having an online competition called "Biggest GLEEk."
Nov 20, 2009
lampbane commented on the word gleek
A fan of the show Glee, as dubbed by FOX.
Nov 20, 2009
lampbane commented on the word otou-san
It's father (+ honorific) in Japanese. I think it might also be written as otō, but my romanization skills are a bit fuzzy.
Nov 20, 2009
lampbane commented on the word dental plan
"Lisa needs braces."
Nov 20, 2009
lampbane commented on the word bacalaíto
Codfish fritter.
Nov 20, 2009
lampbane commented on the word optimism
The Days May Be Grim, but Here’s a Good Word to Put in Your Pocket (New York Times, November 19, 2009)
“The Waterfalls” flowed in the East River. “The Gates” snaked through Central Park. Now New York’s latest large-scale public art project is being exhibited in an even unlikelier space: your wallet.
On the back of seven million MetroCards distributed this fall is a single printed word: “optimism.” Composed in clean, bold, sans-serif letters, it floats in a sea of white just beneath the boilerplate fine print. Another seven million are on the way early next year.
Nov 20, 2009
lampbane commented on the user feedback
I can't edit the comment I made on this list. I have no problems editing anything and everything else.
Nov 20, 2009
lampbane commented on the word bugs
Can't edit a comment I just made (less than five minutes ago) on this list.
(But I can edit this one just fine.)
Nov 20, 2009
lampbane commented on the list animal-identity-crisis
Avatar: The Last Airbender, "City of Walls and Secrets":
Katara: The king is throwing a party at the palace tonight for his pet bear.
Aang: Don't you mean platypus bear?
Katara: No, it just says "bear."
Sokka: Certainly you mean his pet skunk bear?
Toph: Or his armadillo bear?
Aang: Gopher bear?
Katara: Just... "bear."
...
Toph: This place is weird.
Nov 20, 2009
lampbane commented on the word bugs
I added \m/ to a list but I can't actually click through to the page (for reasons that are obvious, but still...).
Nov 20, 2009