Language Archive
In response to one of my recent dreams, Richard wrote:
I hereby decree that, henceforth, the expression “leaking blue liquid” shall be mean “I did something wrong, but I don’t know what it is.”
Examples:
“I seem to have leaked blue liquid in the boss’ office.”
“I’ve been trying to clean blue liquid out of my computer all day, [...]
Seen on a forum: [someone] might get a wild hair up their alien probe-hole
Portmanteau of the Day
3 Comments Published by Eric October 8th, 2006 in Portmanteaus, Neologisms, and Snigletsgrotendous /gr-tnds/, adjective, grotesque, horrendous. Used for extreme emphasis. Adverb: grotendously.
Cory Doctorow brought the adverb form to my attention with a posting on Boing Boing:
What’s weird to me is how the collective output of all that great work by great people produces such lousy outcomes — DRM-crippled OSes like Vista, stupid products like [...]
From a meeting at work:
A jumble of PowerPoint slides
Oooh! A snowclone posted to my blog!
0 Comments Published by Eric October 24th, 2005 in FPGA, PhrasesTo my rant on the CBS evolution survey, Tsar Chasm posted a response that is a snowclone, of the form: X make(s) baby Y cry.
All your snowclone are belong to us!
I, for one, welcome our new snowclone overlords.
