Interesting..

While everyone knows that, when it comes to clothes, certain cuts or styles can only be worn by particular body shapes, it is also generally agreed that models look good in everything.
But I just came across this picture which really looked to me like it is better suited to a shorter, less lanky frame.

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Heteronyms!

Here’s another!
Appropriate

Heteronyms

Here’s one:
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If the author of Pinocchio wrote poems.

Then went and had a love child with Spike Milligan and that child grew up so overwhelmed by his parents’ popularity with children across the nations that he ended up hating kids and decided to write this poem.
A Cautionary Verse, Dennis Lee
My child, do not exaggerate,
Lest you incur a horrid fate—
As ancient oracles relate,
And modern [...]

Interesting fact 1001

I learnt an alternate word meaning today.
Crucifer:
which relates to a person carrying a cross or crucifix in a procession
or
a plant in the cabbage family.
Thanks to Elyse Sewell (of America’s Next Top Model, season 1-fame) and my trusty dictionary/thesaurus widget.
How odd. But I like these secret odd meanings. This might be my new favourite [...]

hello again.

I like the phrase ferociously imbecilic.
To be used when in a huff like,
why are you so ferociously imbecelic?! If we weren’t of the same species, I’d be convinced you were the unfortunate descendant of a rotting tree branch and an oozing toad. And when I say unfortunate I mean for the stick and the amphibian. [...]

On stuff. Which is a rather ideal thing to write about. That is, as opposed to nothing much at all

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.
Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are [...]

More comics, frisbee and food. Unsurprisingly.

I think I’ve posted so many Savage Chickens comics I might as well give it its own category.
I’m really glad I joined and have stayed in frisbee. Everyone’s really nice. I went for the social tonight which consisted basically of Indian at Newtown and being retarded in Victoria Park. The theme was hippie and a [...]

Old Bush vs. New Bush and other vocabularistical awesomeness

must click.

In other news, here are some linguistically appealing posts from around the interweb:
Don’t you love the word architectonic? I took a sculpture class in college where we had to sculpt a cow vertebra from plaster using a chisel. People in the class liked mine because I left it textured with [...]

Rosie Thomas, geeks and nerds.

I should be doing my commercial law essay. Instead, I’m listening to the incredibly relaxing sounds of Rosie Thomas.

Dan, Shimei and I have been debating about the difference between the words geek and nerd. Well, perhaps not actually debating because none of us actually know the difference. Dan even wanted to go up [...]