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No, takchess. I just wrote that limerick yesterday.
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No, takchess. I wrote that limerick yesterday to showcase the term "beat a dead horse".
Just horsing around. :) -
No, I wrote that limerick yesterday to showcase the term "beat a dead horse".
Here's one I wrote for "carmageddon", a 2011 Buzzword (as reported by BBC News).
Carmaggedon was facing LA,
But it looks like a tweet saved the day.
Traffic grid-lock was fleeting
Once Tom went a-tweeting:
Gas-zilla is tweeted away.
Author's Note: The city of Los Angeles asked several celebrities, like Tom Hanks and Ashton Kutcher, to warn Los Angeles residents about carmageddon through the micro-blogging website Twitter.
"This weekend, LA! Avoid Carmageddon, Gas-zilla, 405-enstein, Grid-lock-apalooza! STAY HOME. Eat & shop local," Hanks wrote.
Source: "Carmaggedon: Los Angeles averts traffic grid-lock", BBC News, July 16, 2011. -
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takchess commented on the word morlocks
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morlock
def of Morlocks
Apr 5, 2012
takchess commented on the word morlock
Definition of Morlock
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morlock
Apr 5, 2012
takchess commented on the word opsimath
http://pbmo.wordpress.com/2012/03/12/opsimath/
Mar 13, 2012
takchess commented on the list intentional-malapropisms
Jell-O
Mar 8, 2012
takchess commented on the list intentional-malapropisms
madam-weasel
Mar 7, 2012
takchess commented on the word three pipe problem
It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won’t speak to me for fifty minutes.
Sherlock Holmes
A three pipe problem is a mental tangle that requires about an hour of solitude to unravel
Mar 7, 2012
takchess commented on the list intentional-malapropisms
butchered French: come into the alley vous
Mar 7, 2012
takchess commented on the word concierge
Added to my list so that I can remember how to pronounce it.
Mar 5, 2012
takchess commented on the word clear-eyed
Heard this twice this week. In a Hillary Clinton interview and this obituary by Margalit Fox
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/17/world/middleeast/anthony-shadid-reporter-in-the-middle-east-dies-at-43.html?ref=margalitfox
Mar 4, 2012
takchess commented on the word rejecting the old
I think your answer will come from someone who knows history and can speak to sects & schools of philosophy that rejected all things old and started fresh.
A bohemian, anarchist , Jacobin , Hippy 8) (but these may not be quite what you are looking for. ).
Mar 2, 2012
takchess commented on the list punch-lines
ruzuzu created this open list for joke's punch lines. I added a bunch. Anyone else up for the task ?
Feb 28, 2012
takchess commented on the word bogart
Has anyone ever heard the word bogart used in a coffee reference ? This one is new to me.
n. The first cup of brewed coffee collected from under the coffee filter. Also, a cup of very strong coffee… much the same as espresso.
Feb 28, 2012
takchess commented on the word active vocabulary
A link to an article about the numbers of words in the English language and active vocabulary.
http://www.davidcrystal.com/DC_articles/English83.pdf
Feb 27, 2012
takchess commented on the word begs the question
Begging the question (or petitio principii, "assuming the initial point") is a type of logical fallacy in which the proposition to be proven is assumed implicitly or explicitly in the premise.
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http://grammartips.homestead.com/begging.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question
Feb 27, 2012
takchess commented on the list phrases-and-words-i-didnt-know
Hummingbird mind
I heard it as a southern expression...
Don't mix up your Alligator Mouth with your Hummingbird Brain.
8)
Feb 27, 2012
takchess commented on the word rigamorole
common misspelling for Rigmarole
Feb 27, 2012
takchess commented on the list lost-for-word
perhaps iconoclastic
http://www.wordnik.com/words/iconoclastic
Feb 27, 2012
takchess commented on the word so it has come to this
An always fitting phrase
http://xkcd.com/1022/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Feb 27, 2012
takchess commented on the list on-fillum
Grand Guignol
Feb 23, 2012
takchess commented on the word Card Warp
R.
I saw it on your list. Also in the 1970's , I was also a proud owner of a Glorpy .
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/magic-tricks
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/magic-tricks
Feb 23, 2012
takchess commented on the word beat a dead horse
powersurfers Nice! Is that the first usage of the term ?
Feb 23, 2012
takchess commented on the word professor von schmartzenpanz
R.
I never met the Prof. However there was a time in my life where I used to do cardwarp.
Jim
Feb 23, 2012
takchess commented on the list it-s-a-trap
Burmese tiger trap from The Most Dangerous Game;
http://fiction.eserver.org/short/the_most_dangerous_game.html
Feb 22, 2012
takchess commented on the word community
Question for the Management or the Community at Large....
I know I can add a word as a favorite; can I or will I later be able to add a fellow member's list as a favorite? If so, how ?
Feb 21, 2012
takchess commented on the word obit
an example of a beautifully written obituary...
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/science/emmett-l-bennett-jr-dies-at-93-helped-decipher-linear-b.html?_r=1&ref=margalitfox
Feb 20, 2012
takchess commented on the word Panglossian
Even solar’s biggest allies on Capitol Hill—people like Edward J. Markey, a top Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee—fear the industry’s oil and gas foes may have gotten the upper hand now that the clean-tech bubble has burst. “We are not Panglossian about what lies ahead,” Markey says.
Feb 20, 2012
takchess commented on the word during
During the ...., serves as an introductory phrase
Feb 18, 2012
takchess commented on the word it takes only a look
It takes only a look at the numbers to see...... introductory phrase from D2D.
Feb 18, 2012
takchess commented on the word central
The idea is central to .. , the central idea
Feb 18, 2012
takchess commented on the word widely
widely read, widely accepted ,widely appreciated,
Feb 18, 2012
takchess commented on the word present
adj. Now being considered; actually here or involved: the present subject; present company excepted.
A good substitute for this. The present edition.
Feb 18, 2012
takchess commented on the list simple-strong-words
Pick the word that suits !
Feb 18, 2012
takchess commented on the list rhymes-with-toot
destitute
Feb 18, 2012
takchess commented on the word matter
You matter to me , It matters to me, no matter.
Feb 18, 2012
takchess commented on the list ice-creams-i-have-loved
In Waterbury Vt, there is the flavor graveyard.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:True_Pagan_Warrior/List_of_discontinued_Ben_%26_Jerry's_flavors
Feb 18, 2012
takchess commented on the word craic
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/02/12/cormac-mccarthy-on-the-sante-fe-institute-s-brainy-halls.html
Craic found here (& in Newsweek) page 2 of Cormac McCarthy uses its .(how I tumbled across it.)
Feb 18, 2012
takchess commented on the list remarkable-wikipedia-categories
https://foursquare.com/v/gravity-hill/4dcef6aa7d8b975f18dcda1c
A gravity Hill not listed in Wikipedia in Sterling Ct. USA.
Feb 18, 2012
takchess commented on the word brisant
http://books.google.com/books?id=b9BCMdEHYYQC&pg=PA177&lpg=PA177&dq=brisant+flatulence&source=bl&ots=HEztpRT3HY&sig=cDyDiyxvlyLcx8scVsSa2SU4syA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=dpE-T-v6GKTniALQvMTPAQ&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=brisant%20flatulence&f=false
Brisant Flatulence Colin Whitehead's Zone One
Feb 17, 2012