Still one of my Favorite things ever
Where is this from?!
I don’t like this show, but this moment is actually pretty clever.
(via song-ofthe-siren)
Simple Ways to Improve 7 Popular Websites
Facebook — Snopes Filter
IF ONLY.
This is so badly needed. I always end up looking like the “bad guy” for pointing out things like this.
Yes! Facebook Snopes filter!
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Life delayed the start of this series, but here it is now, my dissection of and commentary on “Pixar’s 22 Rules of Storytelling” (which aren’t really Pixar’s).
(1) You admire a character for trying more than for their successes.A film in which the protagonist never fails at anything is rather…
Saw this in my facebook feed.. (not sure if repost)
http://proud-atheist.tumblr.com
What a gas: Back in 1925, the U.S. government started a giant helium reserve, assuming that it would be essential to our military forces, which we correctly assumed would be made up of thousands of zeppelins like the one shown above. Instead, it became a key element of birthday parties nationwide, with much of that thin air being supplied by the federal government. In recent years, numerous presidents have tried to get rid of the Federal Helium Program, with President Clinton signing a law in 1996 to eventually shut it down. But there’s a problem: Nobody in the private sector has stepped up to replace the program, leading to members of the House recently voting to keep the program going for a few more years. In other words, the private sector is high on the government’s supply.
Snoutfair: A person with a handsome countenance — “The Word Museum: The Most Remarkable English Words Ever Forgotten” by Jeffrey Kacirk
Pussyvan: A flurry, temper — “The Word Museum: The Most Remarkable English Words Ever Forgotten” by Jeffrey Kacirk
Wonder-Wench: A sweetheart — “The Word Museum: The Most Remarkable English Words Ever Forgotten” by Jeffrey Kacirk
Lunting: Walking while smoking a pipe — John Mactaggart’s “Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia,” 1824
California Widow: A married woman whose husband is away from her for any extended period -John Farmer’s “Americanisms Old and New”, 1889
Groak: To silently watch someone while they are eating, hoping to be invited to join them
Jirble: To pour out (a liquid) with an unsteady hand: as, he jirbles out a dram —www.Wordnik.com
Curglaff: The shock felt in bathing when one first plunges into the cold water — John Jamieson’s Etymological Scottish Dictionary, 1808
Spermologer: A picker-up of trivia, of current news, a gossip monger, what we would today call a columnist — “The Word Museum: The Most Remarkable English Words Ever Forgotten” by Jeffrey Kacirk
Tyromancy: Divining by the coagulation of cheese — “The Word Museum: The Most Remarkable English Words Ever Forgotten” by Jeffrey Kacirk
Beef-Witted: Having an inactive brain, thought to be from eating too much beef. — John Phin’s “Shakespeare Cyclopaedia and Glossary”, 1902
Queerplungers: Cheats who throw themselves into the water in order that they may be taken up by their accomplices, who carry them to one of the houses appointed by the Humane Society for the recovery of drowned persons, where they are rewarded by the society with a guinea each, and the supposed drowned person, pretending he was driven to that extremity by great necessity, is also frequently sent away with a contribution in his pocket. — “The Word Museum: The Most Remarkable English Words Ever Forgotten” by Jeffrey Kacirk
Englishable: That may be rendered into English. — John Ogilvie’s “Comprehensive English Dictionary”, 1865
Resistentialism: The seemingly spiteful behavior shown by inanimate objects —www.ObsoleteWord.Blogspot.com
Bookwright: A writer of books; an author; a term of slight contempt — Daniel Lyons’s “Dictionary of the English Language”, 1897
Soda-squirt: One who works at a soda fountain in New Mexico — Elsie Warnock’s “Dialect Speech in California and New Mexico”, 1919
With squirrel: Pregnant — Vance Randolph’s “Down in the Holler: A Gallery of Ozark Folk Speech”, 1953
Zafty: A person very easily imposed upon — Maj. B. Lowsley’s “A Glossary of Berkshire Words and Phrases”, 1888
RESISTENTIALISM
THE SEEMINGLY SPITEFUL BEHAVIOR OF INANIMATE OBJECTS
okay we need to bring this one back right now
I hope to never be with squirrel good gracious