Sign
Saw this sign on a streetcorner outside a store recently: Used babies, $500 and up The store was, of course, a piano store....
Another recombinant idiom
From TechCrunch, December 3, 2009: "Don't shoot the gift horse that feeds you."...
island of misfit toys
I don't think I had ever heard of the Island of Misfit Toys before a couple of months ago, when it figured prominently in an anti-iPhone Verizon commercial. Which would...
Language changes
I'm reading a science fiction story published in 1958: "Eastward Ho!", by William Tenn. It posited a post-Collapse future in which white people live in low-tech poverty, while American Indians...
Rum, hobbitses, and the Kirk
A few weeks back, N introduced me to the catchy video remix "Captain Kirk is climbing a mountain; why is he climbing a mountain?" It does a neat job of...
Powerlatin
Y'all may have seen the Powerthirst video. (If you haven't, then the following probably won't make any sense.) Well, now there's Powerlatin!!! MORE PRONOUNS THAN YOUR MIND HAS ROOM FOR!!!...
baramin
Recently was reading some discussion or other of creationism and came across the word "baramin." Creationists use the word to refer to the "created kinds" of animals referred to in...
Why God gave us the serial comma
As reported by Womzilla, via Supergee on the cranky_editors LiveJournal community: Several groups trying to re-ignite New England's faith are theologically conservative, such as the Southern Baptists [and others]. They...
More on gender-neutral pronouns
I've written about gender-neutral pronouns before. Here's an article from a couple months ago about the origin of gender-neutral "he" along with a discussion of singular "they."...
Oklahoma demons
Noticed this line a couple months ago in the lyrics to "People Will Say We're in Love" (from Oklahoma): Your eyes mustn't glow like mine Has anyone done a horror...