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What’s Coming this Week
A few things: Victoria Day on May 23, Towel Day on May 25, and (hallelujah!) the final week of what is, nominally, the Johnny-Depp-versus-Amber-Heard defamation trial but what is, actually, an egregious mash-up of the worst aspects of celebrity culture and cable-TV obnoxiousness.
Video Memory of the Week
Posted: 2022 May 21
Photo Memory of the Week
Music of the Week
Version with lyrics chosen to compensate for the general mush-mouth-ed-ness of the singer. Or maybe my ears are just getting old . . .
Posted: 2022 May 20
Words of the Week
"A watched pot has never delivered such excitement." - Joe Ray
Source: Wired, 2022 May 13Posted: 2022 May 20
Tweet of the Week
What an interesting coincidence that the people who believe Western civilization is uniquely terrible turned out to be uniquely terrible at running Western civilization
— Michael Shellenberger (@ShellenbergerMD) May 20, 2022
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Category Archives: Language and Communication
Punny, yes, but funny?
Familiarity breeds no laughs. Continue reading
This Dang Place
What’s beyond the green door? Don’t go there. Continue reading
Sharing Size
Stay alert. The marketeers are loose again. Continue reading
Posted in Language and Communication, Laughing Frequently
Tagged Business, Culture, Food & Drink
10 Comments
Look Again
Three bridges and a snowy egret along a body of water. And a fine point of grammar, specified if not clarified. Continue reading
Posted in Language and Communication, Photos of Built Stuff, Photos of Flora, Thinking Broadly
Tagged Birds, Bridges, Science, Water, Word Play
6 Comments
Sprezzatura
Language fun. Yes, really. Continue reading
Whom dat?
Who dat who say or write whom? Continue reading
Heater Face: Office-Alone Variant
As I wait for inexplicably late printing (because COVID, I presume), I see a heater face way behind the counter to join the one in the banner. This one evokes the Home Alone face, which makes me wonder . . … Continue reading
Posted in Language and Communication, Laughing Frequently, Photos of Faces
Tagged Pareidolia, Word Play
8 Comments
God Rest Ye
“We’ll discover how the commas shape the prose.” Continue reading
Posted in Language and Communication, Laughing Frequently, Music Videos
Tagged Word Play
14 Comments
It’s Not Special Delively
Hearing isn’t always believing. Continue reading
Posted in Day-to-Day Encounters, Language and Communication, Laughing Frequently
Tagged Travel, Word Play
10 Comments
