Showing posts with label archives. Show all posts
Showing posts with label archives. Show all posts

Thursday, March 3, 2011

Here Comes That Goddamn Jazz Bus Again


Used without permission from an old friend; will work on getting a better image.

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Nostalgia...



...to hopefully spur you lazy asses out of your winter malaise (and into some blog posting!!).

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

...without the slightest molestation!

But profligacy: offensive to Philadelphians?  That doesn't sound right...

We thank CCMM for his unknowing contribution. 

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Dazzle Ships I


Dazzle camouflage, also known as Razzle Dazzle or Dazzle painting, was a camouflage paint scheme used on ships, extensively during World War I and to a lesser extent in World War II.

Monday, December 7, 2009

Xythantiops, we hardly knew ye



(Technically speaking, is Xythantiops a furry?)

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Mind you don't go twirly on me!

Bezabor: a peculiar character. "He's a queer old bezabor."
Catch-talk: Trivial sayings. "There's a lot of catch talk in the Bible."
Do a dicker: To make a bargain. "You and I might do a dicker on him."
Innards: Guts. "There'll be a fire built on your innards down in Hell."
Notional: A little queer. "I'm notional that way."
Old apple in the wind: "His head was rolling all over his shoulders like an old apple in the wind."
Rangdangle: To beat up. "Klore intends to rangdangle you."
Rumple: To destroy. "I don't mean that a swaller is going to rumple your innards."
Sheltered honey: Pampered. "She was always a sheltered honey."
Spraddly: Apart. "We saw that his legs were spraddly and his back arched."
Tile: Silk hat. "The gloss of a man's tile is distinctive."
Twirly: Unbalanced. "He bumped his head and went twirly."

From Erie Canal Colloquial Expressions, by Jason Almus Russell
© 1930 The American Dialect Society

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Everyman's social science


One man's emetic is another man's fetish. A third man's fetish is another man's ejecta.

Wednesday, October 28, 2009