In English Lit the other day, we were discussing an English trick I was rather fond of. Sadly, I forgot the name of it. But. In my desperate search for “metaphor+compound+word” I found this list of very cool words for things I didn’t know were defined.
I did learn that saying things like “Whale-road” for Ocean was a kenning, but there are some other cool ones there too.
I now believe that Coolbreeze is the master of tmesis.
When I heard the reporters talking about this this morning (before the tower fell) I thought it was a joke MP3 (War of the Worlds) or a Red Alert 3 trailer.
I saw the video of the second plane hitting the tower. It looked like a movie. What’s going on?
You know what I mean.
I’ve just moved into my quaint little dorm room in the fine Thornton house of Mt. A, it’s very nice. And it smells like paint.
I believe we get the ritual ‘welcome spanking’ sometime this weekend. Wish me luck.
Everybody‘s favorite dictionary site has an amazing mailing list that is totally worth your 30 seconds every morning. In my quest to speak better English I have found Dictionary.com‘s Word of the Day to be very informative.
I read them every day Argus-eyed, and so should you, it’s quite a bacchanalia and your brain will grow corpulent.
A fine young man handed this link off to me. I’m glad to see that other people agree that Subway’s new way of cutting subs sucks.
Put your name on the line for something that matters.
Assaults on nurses are at an all time high.
What kind of prick would assault a nurse (regardless of gender)? I mean, I understand if the nurse was asking for it (they’re still people, and people suck) but if that was all that was going on, it wouldn’t be at an all time high!
I can also understand if the patient wasn’t in control of his faculties and thought the nurse was a bear or something. But some of these people are getting smacked around by ‘stressed out’ friends and family.
That is bullshit. How are these patients expected to survive with no nurses? Nurses give meds, feed, wash, test, and do countless other things to keep patients alive and comfortable. And when they have to do something unpleasant they don’t exactly enjoy it, but it’s for your own good.
I am starting to rant, and at the risk of becoming an angsty blog* I’ll finish up by saying nurses deserve more money.
* Sorry Will, but you totally asked for it buddy. 🙂
Oh yea!
It’s reasons like
these that the Internet exists and is so cool.
Where else could you find such enormous quantities of great merchandise? I wonder if people buy more crap now than they did before. I know I do, but coincidentally I only started making enough money to buy crap when all this crap became available.
In related news, my forth Spacehog shirt arrived in the mail today. That makes me a collector! I have a hobby!
I thought that ThinkGeek had cool geek stuff, and they still do, and since I’ve run Linux in the past, I justified buying a ‘Chicks Dig Unix‘ shirt.
However, I just discovered The Apple Stuff Store and every ounce of poser in my body wants that unjustifiable original Apple Lapel Pin.
I know we try to keep AOV a bit less personal so we don’t become an angsty blog, but I’d like fire off a quick note all the same.
Mad props go out to all my pals that threw me a birthday thing at the JunkYard. Also thanks to Kris for buying me a tasty coffee-like-thing afterwards at Cafe Diem.
They’re just too dangerous to have wandering around untamed.