A beehive of Unfogged commentators?
(Gathering honey, minding other people's beeswax and occasionally stinging?)
A pacing of front page posters.
A shaft of commenters.
A stabbing of meetups.
A rightness of heebies.
A suckup of Stormcrows.
A pun of Mobys
A redux of oggeds
A sonnet of Natilos
A vente of baristas
A ramen of adjuncts
A headlock of hockey rioters
A vomit of zombies
A trigger warning of tumblrs
A confusion of priests
An awkwardness of physicists
An assertion of politicians
(I really like 9.last)
A gratification of marshmallows
A fringe of hippies
A skin of drummers
A hammer of banjos
A Kirby of comic book store clerks
A jesuschristthat'sdisgusting of apo links
Yeah, if you're into the whole brevity thing.
It's a mineshaft of commenters, silly.
Will rejoining Audubon improve my chances of getting acceptance of my two coinages?
A galaxy of Steller's Jays. A defenestration of Bohemian Waxwings.
A defenestration of Bohemian Waxwings
A defenestration of Brazilian Waxings.
It's a mineshaft of commenters, silly.
A brevity of wit.
A brevity of Brazilian waxings
I'm also working on a honoringtheracistlegacyofGeorgePrestonMarshall of Redskins fans.
A sorrow of trolls might have a better chance.
A venery of terms.
Tangentially, people who retell these (exaltation of larks) as though they were in genuine, literal use are deluded.
A counterintuitive of slatepitches
A genus of pseudonymized academic employers
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Know what will freak the fuck out of you? Launching three websites the night before an important event for your company. Then, your wife manages to download some malware the same night that causes a bunch of words on websites to be populated with double-underlined hyperlinks. Then you go to triplecheck your sites on first firing up your home browser and about shit a brick. Thankfully I figured it out in about a minute.
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An assful of ungrateful commenters.
Right, a veritable little bitchery of nebs.
"An assful" is a great phrase and should be used more often. That's my takeaway here.
A procrastination of commenters.
A procrastination of commenters.
36: I don't really understand how the "random commercial hyperlink underneath common, everyday words" is a viable advertising model. Much less when they get put there by malware.
I don't know either. But it sure is a bitch to uninstall.
And even when you do uninstall, you can never be sure its truly gone.
I don't really understand how the "random commercial hyperlink underneath common, everyday words" is a viable advertising model.
I don't understand how email spam is a viable advertising model either, but it must be or we wouldn't get it. A small number of people are irreducibly thick and the rest of us are collateral damage.
Since this is the "things we've probably already done thread," does anyone know where "if we had any ham we could have ham and eggs if we had any eggs" comes from? The internet is remarkably unhelpful here.
Pogo, I think. At least that's where I first saw it.
You are supported by one creationist on the internet. Still, I like it better than Groucho Marx or "Ronald Reagan* (or maybe Abraham Lincoln)" which were the other two sources I saw.
Interestingly, Wikiquote denies Groucho attribution for "fruit flies like a banana" and questions "inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
Quick googling (which oh my God should I not be doing today) suggests Carl Sandburg, but in context it looks as if it were a pre-existing line when he used it.
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The hurt from being stood up without explanation doesn't diminish with age, at least not so far.
In fact it freshens the memory, so that you can almost feel the bouquet in your clammy hand.
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52: Email spam is supported by the utter cheapness of sending it and the law of large numbers: if you spam enough people you'll find a few suckers.
Probably the same is true of word-linking malware, with the additional feature that at one time it might have fooled the Google page ranking system (I don't think it does any more).
57: A whiff of grapeshot (for the stander-upper)
53, 56: It looks like Sandburg used it in his poem "The People, Yes" written in 1936. Partridge's Dictionary of Catch Phrases has the following entry:
If only I had some eggs, I'd make (occ cook) eggs and bacon (pause) if I had the bacon, with several slight variations, is an army c.p. of WW I: wistful if applied to oneself, mildly satirical if to another. By far the commonest American variant was "if we had some ham, we'd have some ham and eggs, if we had some eggs." (And no pause before the second 'if') (J.W.C., 1977). The US version has. R.C tells me. 1978, been current from the 1920ss now obsolescent. Cf if I were thirsty, I'd go buy a beer if had a nickel: US: since c. 1920. (A.B., 1979.)
Also attributed to Grouch Marx, and the first reference I found was to an internal White Castle memo from 1943.
A nursery of unfogged commenters, surely.
I just ran a nipple bleed of miles. I had my ankle in one if those wrap things. Made a huge difference.
Thanks Stormcrow. That is a handy dictionary and I am glad to know of it.
Sorry, idp. That's no good.
64.1 Yeah, the little bit I've seen of it via searches makes me want to buy it.
Since everyone is probably curious about my running, I'll go on. Because of illness and injury, I missed most of the training I should have done for my half marathon (two weeks from Sunday). The stupid cold winter wasn't helping either. So, I did my one and only long run tonight. I did 8.8 miles at my old, slow pace. I feel pretty good, considering, but there's way I'll be able to run any great distance between now and the race if I want to finish the race. I don't think I'll do more than five miles at a go next week.
I think I'll be able to run the half, but that I'll not be any better than last time and may be slower. This is especially disappointing since I stopped going to bars in order to be able to run better.
65: The first google search for it turns up a pdf link, FWIW.
Maybe you could compromise and run to and from the bar.
Probably have to stick to the nonsmoking bar.
67: Ah, thanks. I'd always ended up at either a Google books version or Amazon search inside.
67: However, its entry on the catch phrase I just looked up "softly, softly catchee monkey" was lacking a lot of the best background that this article provides. Baden-Powell and apparently well-known in Scotland(?). I knew it via an Aussie who rendered it "softly, softly catch the monkey."
66: Sorry to hear that, Moby. I'm debating signing up for my first half in September, but I am afraid that as soon as I sign up I'll get injured.
66: This is sports news I'm interested in - the occasional training update/description of the race would not be deprecated, at least by me.
"A swifty of Toms," said collectively.
My dad was a King's Scout, like an Eagle here, and actually met Baden-Powell. My dad had Gilwell beads, not original ones but still, pre-war.
I read Scouting for Boys when I was about ten. Doesn't the title sound salacious now? I hate that.