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Fortunately, I waited until after dinner before reading this. I suppose it's probably a little more elegant than chowing down on our abundant six-legged friends, as is often suggested, but if I have to puzzle over whether I'm eating fake real meat or real fake meat, well, thanks, I'll just have the salad.

Commented 3 days ago on Word of the Week: Shmeat at Fritinancy

During the brief period I played the ponies, I quickly came to the conclusion that I knew nothing about this particular enterprise. And so I decided to bet on this jockey, on the perhaps-arguable basis that she had something more to prove. I didn't walk away with thousands, but I didn't lose my shirt either.

Commented May 5, 2013 on If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all. at Open Book

Preach on, Brother Bob. "Hey, it's one of those 'tit-least' balls!" got me the dirtiest looks. How was I to know?

Commented Apr 12, 2013 on Language-ier! at Fritinancy

The flip-side of that Olds ad, I imagine, is the 2007 Canadian Club campaign: "Damn Right Your Dad Drank It." Certainly it made sense for Oldsmobile, since 1988 was the first year for a front-wheel-drive Cutlass Supreme.

Commented Apr 4, 2013 on Not Your Close Relative's X at Fritinancy

"Because PAPER, that's why." Love it. I once asked my mom about one of those Modess ads. "Because why?" "You'll understand when you're older," she said. A lot older, as it turned out.

Commented Mar 27, 2013 on Because at Fritinancy

I am puzzled by "Here" for a navigation tool. Is not the objective to get "There"? (Perhaps this is for those who don't know where they are in the first place.)

Commented Mar 14, 2013 on Here a Here, There a Here, Everywhere a Here Here at Fritinancy

If you wield the crayon correctly, the lines don't matter so much. Or so I hear.

Commented Feb 23, 2013 on Coloring outside the lines is a fine art. at Open Book

A motor vehicle which exhibits a tendency to wander all over the road, requiring constant course corrections, is said to have squirrelly (sometimes with a single L) handling; I don't know if this is a form of visual onomatopoeia -- assuming there is such a thing as visual onomatopoeia -- or an extension of the "cunningly unforthcoming" definition, inasmuch as drivers expect the steering wheel to tell them something about what's happening on the road.

Commented Jan 2, 2013 on Squirrel! at Fritinancy

Meanwhile, over at Maserati, there were a few models named for winds - Mistral, Khamsin - though the only Maserati I ever got to drive was the more prosaic Quattroporte, which means exactly what you think it does. Still: "I got to drive a Maserati!" I cannot, however, corroborate Joe Walsh's claim for his.

Commented Mar 28, 2012 on How the Countach Got Its Name at Fritinancy

Good call by Ms Wattenberg, I think. To this day, I generally refer to that other anachronism, the Nuclear Family, as "Joe and Susan Sixpack and their 2.3 kids."

Commented Mar 7, 2012 on The Persistence of Susie at Fritinancy

At the other end of the word is "Yola," which is a Web host in San Francisco, and which at least sounds better than "SynthaSite," its previous name.

Commented Mar 1, 2012 on If the Bray Fits at Fritinancy

I am properly awed. Thirty-nine years ... why, that's already halfway to forever, right?

Commented Feb 18, 2012 on Will you still need me, will you still feed me? at sisu

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"3 Sum"? "4 Play"? How asi 9.

Commented Feb 9, 2012 on Nu? Me Again? at Fritinancy

Just dropped $4 in the kitty. I hope the other 749 who drop by today do likewise.

Commented Dec 27, 2011 on Help Launch a New Fiction Magazine at Fritinancy

You don't last eight years in this realm unless you're offering something special. Here's to eight more, and as many more after that as you can stand. :)

Commented Dec 19, 2011 on Have yourself a merry little blogiversary: Now we are eight. at sisu

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To add to the "bronies" perplexity, there is BroNYCon, a gathering of same in New York next month. Obligatory link: http://www.bronycon.org/

Commented Dec 16, 2011 on December Linkfest at Fritinancy

I admit I'm late to the party, but this status report from a Web host seems like a pretty good example of "fail over" in the two-word variety. http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/2011/10/28/shared-server-managua-is-offline-due-to-unscheduled-filesystem-check/ Note that the URL differs from the title; as the situation progressed, the title was updated, presumably for the benefit of RSS subscribers.

Commented Oct 29, 2011 on Word of the Week: Failover at Fritinancy

"Salsa de la Muerte" would probably sell well over here in Tejas del Norte, even without the translation available on the next shelf.

Commented Oct 25, 2011 on Eat, Drink, and Be Spooky at Fritinancy

Well, if you must slouch, you may as well do it inchoately; if nothing else, it reminds Joe and Susan Sixpack that while The Whole World Is Watching, there is serious work to be done, and they have to be there at 8 Monday morning to do it.

Commented Oct 9, 2011 on Occupy Wall Street: What rough beast? at sisu

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I knew about "Nova," but the car that always puzzled me was the short-lived AMC Matador. Unless I've forgotten all my Spanish (which is not impossible), "matador" means "killer" - and not necessarily of bulls, either.

Commented Oct 6, 2011 on The New Yorker on Brand Names at Fritinancy

Next question: does the noun "outreach," seemingly a function of every nonprofit from Bangor to Bakersfield, have a similar emetic effect?

Commented Oct 5, 2011 on Does “Reach Out” Make You Retch? at Fritinancy

I just had a horrible thought: you don't suppose Lenovo's Chinese overlords think "do" rhymes with "Lenovo," do you?

Commented Sep 30, 2011 on What Would Lenovo Do? at Fritinancy

Or you could go back to the 2003 prequel to "Dumb and Dumber," which bore the curious title "Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd." One variation I've heard in blogdom refers to the tendency to pile new laws onto existing laws, ostensibly to plug loopholes; the cry arises, "It was illegal before, and now it's even illegaller." Come to think of it, how does one plug a loophole? Wouldn't it be easier just to reposition the rope?

Commented Sep 13, 2011 on To -er Is Human at Fritinancy

The exhibitionist derives his pleasure from forcing you to look at something. In three years of reading this blog, I don't recall seeing one instance where you forced anyone to do anything; it just seems so unlike you. The admittedly-small number of people I know personally who routinely do without clothing aren't doing it for an audience; they're doing it because it feels a whole lot better.

Commented Aug 27, 2011 on Naked With Intention at nakedjen

I met a woman in Los Angeles who drove a Toyota Cressida, and I was just goofy enough to ask her "So has she been faithful?" "So far" was the reply.

Commented Aug 16, 2011 on August Linkfest at Fritinancy