March 2009
Some [citation needed] would argue moreso
marykgo: HELLO
marykgo: GIRLFRIEND IS JUST AS IMPORTANT AS TUMBLR
marykgo: SOME WOULD ARGUE MORESO
tristanjay7: i was in the shower
marykgo: then how did that postpunk post get there?
tristanjay7: hahah
marykgo: busted
“Finding an unlikely middle point between Suicide’s hostile proto-electro...”
– Hahahaah—allmusic, really? As much as I enjoy “Kids”, the only reason I like the song is the sublime meep-meep-meep-[weird meep] hook. The real glimmer of hope, I suppose, is “Electric Feel” since non-anthem anthems—“we were fated to...
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Collected Pokemon Puns (updated 3/16/09)
http://www.kamitoman.com/post/74181502
http://generic-trex.tumblr.com/post/82308223
http://postpunk.tumblr.com/post/82388789
http://postpunk.tumblr.com/post/82362993
http://tumblr.quisby.net/post/82375967
http://natface.tumblr.com/post/82358561
http://raptoravatar.tumblr.com/post/82372088
http://averyedison.com/post/82394339
http://tumblr.quisby.net/post/82401430
...
February 2009
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A Series of Philosophical and Socioeconomic Jokes
prolefeed:
All culled from a 4chan thread except #2, #3 and #6, which are of my own design.
1) There once was this magnificent mathematical horse. It was taught arithmetic, which it learned with no difficulty. Algebra was a breeze for it, too. It could even prove theorems in Euclidean geometry. But when you tried to teach it analytic geometry, it would rear back on its hind legs, kick...
Guy hooked up to oxygen tank wants a chance - m4w-... →
NSFW (via planettampon)
Hello World
Back from the Linguistics Student Organization get-together (drunk). Spirited arguments about the Minimalist Program met with spirited drinking. Talked shop re Old German with German Phd-er who taught me the pf affricate. Found out from the grad students that the faculty are a bunch territorial douchebags, the sentiment expressed being that it would be no great tragedy if the department burned to...
English Phonology: Trisyllabic Laxing
The Phenomenon: tense vowels (diphthongs or long vowels) become lax (short monophthongs) when followed by two syllables (in a derived environment), the first of which unstressed.
The Examples:
“ee” becomes “e” in let
serene → serenity
impede → impediment
“ay” becomes “a” in hat
profane → profanity
grateful → gratitude
“i” in...
“Devil’s avocado here, Larry. I hide cash everywhere!”
– Tracey Jordan’s best line ever?
Grammar trainwreck
trainwrecks:
brianvan:
[BLAH BLAH BLAH]
No, she’s saying that by whining on and on and on and on and acting like a tortured little victim of hate you’re losing perspective about how fucking lucky you are that Web20Morons is your biggest problem.
eatshootleave:
“…lucky you are that Web20Morons are your biggest problem.”
trainwrecks:
Wow, Trainwrecks are so stupid. Trainwrecks don’t know...
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Girlfriend tries to run over boyfriend for wanting... →
up-schist-creek:
Her record includes charges for assault for trying to steeple his hands to a table for misplacing her pew-ter keepsakes.
The women later remarked that she had lost control of the car: “I wasn’t amen for him and I tried everything I could to mass him.”
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Man jailed after stabbing girlfriend's feet →
up-schist-creek:
setuplikeadeckofcards:
up-schist-creek:
The man, a resident of Fort Pierce, alledgedly attacked her from the foot of the bed.
Doctors believe the victim’s injuries will totally heel.
If convicted, she plans to pray daily for his sole to be saved.
I don’t get why the girlfriend didn’t suspect anything. It doesn’t take a stab in the dark to know something...
ragbag →
unfollowfriday:
This guy is a fraud. He uses words that he just looked up in a dictionary and pretends like he has used them since the day he was born. He thinks it is so hilarious that he doesn’t post pictures of himself, I say: Good, nobody wants to see you anyways. I keep “liking” his posts and he hasn’t even followed me yet. What a jerk.
Emphasis mine.
@nbc15_madison:
Major winter storm still targeting Wisconsin. Conditions will be worse NORTH of Madison. nbc15.com/home/he…
Oh no.
@nbc15_madison:
Schools already dismissing early because of weather. nbc15.com
This is no good.
@nbc15_madison:
A freight train ran into about two dozen cattle that had strayed onto railroad tracks. nbc15.com/home/he…
...
The Linguists →
filigree:
Of the world’s 7,000 languages, 40 percent are on their way to extinction, with the last fluent speaker of a language dying once every two weeks. The Linguists, airing on PBS on February 26 at 10 p.m ET, traces two insatiable researchers, K. David Harrison and Greg Anderson, on a journey to the ends of the Earth to meet the speakers of some very remote languages — Chulym in Siberia,...
paralipsis
wordjournal:
noun • /ˌparəˈlipsis/ • the rhetorical device of emphasizing or drawing attention to something by professing to say little or nothing about it, or affecting to dismiss it (usually with such phrases as not to mention, to say nothing of, etc.); an instance of this.
from ancient Greek παράλειψις < παραλείπειν — to leave on one side, pass by.
It’s pronounced...
I wonder where justpretendsigh got the The Embarrassment mp3 from. To hell with all the care and work Ian put into his 1981 project (which I got the song from), am I right?
9-year-old girl dying of cancer weds 7-year-old... →
(via thedailywhat)
“Which book did she review [____] without reading [____]?”
– parasitic gap (via sentences)
dance to the radio →
admorobo:
a mix composed for tristanjay7. some postpunk favorites and deep cuts. tracks may need to be rearranged for intended playback.
01. the jesus and mary chain - just like honey 02. joy division - transmission 03. the cure - love song 04. nick cave and the bad seeds - deanna 05. mission of burma - academy fight song 06. the dB’s - black and white 07. devo - gut feeling/slap your...
“But “some people” are going to think virtually any usage is wrong; the question...”
– Language Hat commenting in Language Log’s Oblivious to Usage Advice?
eush: ‘Thistlebottom’ - guaranteed to get a chuckle out of me, every time.
Obama should stop saying "and I" →
barthel:
Disagree. Hey, if it’s good enough for T.S. Eliot, it’s good enough for the President. Like anti-semitism!
Good enough for Shakespeare too!
I was going to rehash the old “in noun phrase conjunctions, case is assigned to the matrix noun phrase, not the conjuncts” explanation, but I’m a little behind on the current literature. Instead, I’d like to look at this...
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Mother sells newborn to pay for hospital bill →
up-schist-creek:
Was snapped up at the ‘Buy it now’ price, woman promises to pay shipping charge.
When reached for comment, the buyer remarked “A+++++++++++++++++ WILL BUY AGAIN!”
tomewing:
The Dismemberment Plan - “Back And...
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