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Why I Love Wikipedia (#587)

“Disgustipated” is track 69 on most pressings in North America (causing most CD players upon reaching the end of track 9 to advance through tracks 10-68, which contain no data, at a rate of about 2 per second until track … Weiterlesen

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Fragmente (6)

He kicked the cupboard angrily. “Take this for not containing a knife!”

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Word of the Day: clabrevication

A blend of clarification and abbreviation. Describes the process of rewriting part of a text such that it becomes both more understandable and shorter, possibly even without losing information. Clabrevication is widely considered the supreme discipline of copy editing, although … Weiterlesen

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Nazi Compounds

Phrase # of Google hits (at the time of entering the list) grammar nazi 188,000 music nazi 122,000 love nazi 85,600 food nazi 75,000 movie nazi 50,300 porn nazi 47,100 health nazi 25,100 republican nazi 19,000 code nazi 13,000 moral … Weiterlesen

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The Indefinite Determiner ‘this’

So this random guy walks up to my table, sits down and starts telling a story out of the blue. I have no idea what he is talking about or who he is referring to when he begins, “So this … Weiterlesen

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The Plan

A: Well, Harold, I’m not sure whether I understand your plan completely, but unless I’m very much mistaken, it involves my death, right? B: Yes, that is correct. A: Well, I don’t want that. B: You don’t… oh, yeah. Sure. … Weiterlesen

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Graph Jokes

I’ve been meaning to get this off my chest for a while:

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Fragmente (5)

Teacher: It’s not wrong, but it’s not standard. Student: So can we choose to write it this way? Teacher: If you want me as your enemy…

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A stops to tie her shoelaces. B: I thought those were just for show. A: Yeah, but the show must go on.

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Island Constraint Violation of the Day (1)

That’s the heat you should get out of the kitchen if you can’t stand.

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